Hallo, Peter,
Du meintest am 12.07.11:
>> How can you expect *machineS* to get a response from squid if
>> network is down?
> Proxy server. Squid accepts clients on inside interface and
> connects to internet servers on outside interface.
> Outside interface goes down with inside interface still alive.
That was the option/switch
offline mode on
or
offline mode off
New versions of squid don't need this option; if the WAN interface is
down the clients get their pages from the cache (or they get nothing if
the wanted page is not yet cached).
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut