On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:28:53 -0600, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> HI squids,
> 
> I did realize that in latest snapshoot 3.1 has pinger disabled.  I
wonder
> to 
> know what for pinger is?
> 

Squid uses it to securely do ICMP to measure distance to the possible
source servers of a request. Optimizing which peers get used for fastest
responses.
It was on for some extra testing on 3.1 betas, but is not yet installed
properly, so has been disabled temporarily again for the coming production
release.

Amos

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