RE: [squid-users] Youtube -An error occured, please try again later

From: GIGO . <gigoz_at_msn.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:02:26 +0000

Hi Amos
 
 
Yes the problems seems to be gone and it could be the reason thanks for explaining.
 
regards,
 
Bilal
 
 
 
 

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> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 20:32:43 +1200
> From: squid3_at_treenet.co.nz
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Youtube -An error occured, please try again later
>
> GIGO . wrote:
>> Hi henrik,
>>
>> Right now i don't have my access.log. (will share it with you after the weekend) However let me tell you that after setting the negative_ttl to 0. Apparently the problem was resolved. But i need to be sure about it.
>>
>> Do you think that this had resolved the problem?
>
> Quite probably.
>
> negative_ttl forces Squid to cache and provide ALL clients with the 4xx
> or 5xx error page for a certain length of time. Even if it was only a
> temporary issue due to a single client request failure. It's a manually
> added DoS vulnerability to every Squid which uses it.
>
> It's rarely useful nowdays even for its original purpose of reducing 404
> flooding of backend servers.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.3
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