It appears that my local cache is completely bypassed in favor of a parent proxy. I need to have my Squid (v2.5S7 + patches) call a parent proxy for authentication. After making what seemed to be reasonable additions to my squid.conf file, I find that I can in fact run through the parent proxy, but that the local cache is not used at all. These are the lines added to my config: cache_peer proxy.domain.tld parent 1080 7 no-query login=myname:mypass acl allsrc src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 never_direct allow allsrc Basically I want the parent cache to be called for any objects that can't be satisfied from the local cache, and that the objects gotten from the parent be cached locally. The non-use of my local cache is so complete, though, that I suspect I am bass-ackwards. I think I must be telling Squid that I want the parent queried for every request, though that isn't my reading of the "cache_peer" doc. I should note that my local Squid config worked great until the need for parent authentication prompted me to add the above lines to my config. Advice, please?
