On Wednesday 26 February 2003 23.16, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:47:26PM +0100, Ard van Breemen wrote: > > And telnet localhost 9090 works? > > And if so: > > GET http://www.porn.com/ HTTP/1.0 > > <empty line> > > The parent proxy daemon serving port 9090 ist temporarily down thus > causing a "dead parent". It is perfectly okay that squid refuses to > use the parent. However I want squid to go *direct* in this case. > That's what I'm searching for. The "prefer_direct off" didn't work.
For this to work, never_direct MUST NOT be used. Also, you probably should set a lower connect timeout on your cache_peers to allow for quicker recovery. Regards Henrik
