Hi,
I'm in a firewalled environment with two possible parent proxys. I learned they are
both
netscapes so I'm not able to do ICP.
I would like to setup my squid in a way that it prefers to use the first parent as
long
as this one works. Only in cases when the first parent is down (unreachable or not
responding or refusing connections) my squid should try to connect to the second
parent
(the backup proxy which should normally be left alone).
I tried to configure
cache_peer parent1.my.dom parent 81 0 no-query
cache_peer parent2.my.dom parent 81 0 no-query
To test this config I used another name for parent1 directing squid to a machine not
listening on port 81. Result was that squid insisted to request from this machine only
to
get "connection refused" their. Now I expected squid to fall back to the still
reachable
parent2 which did not happen.
How can I convince squid that (only) in cases parent1 is not "living" it shall use
parent2?
Thanks in advance.
Hasta la vista,
Robert
