On 28/10/2013 8:27 a.m., Beto Moreno wrote:
Hi.
Reading my config file squid-3.1.x, I found a parameter called netdb,
googling a little a found a site, what I understand is that.
netdb is used when u have a bunch of squid cache servers and u use
icp/htcp stuff.
In a company where u used a single cache server for security and speed
up the company network, we don't need netdb settings.
Do I understand right or netdb is useful in my network layout?
netdb is the internal "Network Measurement Database" used by Squid for
calculating RTT and traffic loadings between itself and any given
upstream server.
In the recent Squid releases it requires --enable-icmp to enable ICMP
pinger but also pulls in additional details from ICP, HTCP and HTTP
connection and response timing. It seems to only be used by the
background weighted peer selection algorithms such as weighted-round-robin.
Amos
