Dancer wrote:
> > was if the parent receives a miss, 30 seconds later it goes and adds
> > this page to it's own cache, essentually backfilling the parent. Is
> > this possible with squid?
>
> It's simple enough to write a companion process that watches what's
> going on and does this.
This will be especially true if using Squid 2.2 since false hits are now
supposedly handled properly. The sucking parent can now be denied
miss_access on all peers to avoid risking wasting any external bandwidth
on this procedure, and some simple never_direct rules stops the parent
from going direct.
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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
