On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:24:16 -0700 (PDT), Chris Hostetter <hossman_sq...@fucit.org> wrote: > : The DNS way would indeed be nice. It's not possible in current Squid > : however, if anyone is able to sponsor some work it might be doable. > > If i can demonstrate enough advantages in getting peering to work i might
> just be able to convince someone to think about doing that ... but that > also assumes i can get the operations team adament enough to protest > having a hack where they need to run a "config_generator" script on > every box whenever a cluster changes (because a script like that would be > fairly straight forward to write as a one off, it's just harder to > implement as a general purpose feature in squid) > > : With Squid-2.7 you can use the 'include' directive to split the > squid.conf > : apart and contain the unique per-machine parts in a separate file to the > : shared parts. > > yeah, i'm already familiar with inlcude, but either way i need a > per-machine snippetto get arround the "sibling to self" problem *and* a > way to reconfig when the snippet changes (because of the cluster changing > problem) > > -Hoss For a bit of leverage; every time the config changes squid needs to be reconfigured, which causes a short outage. I've been thinking about it, and the multiple-IPs for a cache_peer might work when a DNS name is entered as first parameter of cache_peer. But only the IPs detected at startup/reconfigure time will be used so you don't really evade the reconfigure outage with that either. Amos
