[techtalk] Squid config

[Subba Rao]

On  0, "Jenn V." <jenn at simegen.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> > The cache_peer values have the following settings.
> > 
> > cache_peer myhost.mydomain.com     parent    3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> > cache_peer myhost1.mydomain.com     sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> > cache_peer myhost2.mydomain.com   sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> > cache_peer myhost3.mydomain.com      sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> > cache_peer myhost4.mydomain.com   sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the right setting for cache_peer.
> > Any input from squid admins appreciated.
> 
> I haven't configured squid myself, and my squid admin (aka husband)
> happens to be off at a spec meeting for a couple of days.
> 
> But:
> 
> 1. I assume you understand proxy peering (that your proxy goes
> to the peers, if they have the relevent page, rather than the 
> page source) and intend to use it?
> 
> 2. You don't /really/ have 'myhost.mydomain.com' in your actual
> config file, do you? You've replaced that with the address of 
> your intended parent and sibling proxies, haven't you?
> 
> 3. If you don't want peer proxies, comment the lines out.
> 

Thanks for replying. Since I do not have caching peers, I deleted these
tags from the config file and squid starts fine now. There are other config
errors which can be tweaked as I go along.

How does Squid keep track of the files being cached? How do we know if the cached files have
changed on the original server?

Thank you once again.

Subba Rao
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