> Squid Version: squid/2.5.STABLE12
>
> I've configured a proxy script that my clients point to. It reads as
> follows:
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
> {
> if (isPlainHostName(host) || isInNet(host, "172.24.0.0",
> "255.255.0.0")
> || isInNet(host, "192.168.0.0",
> "255.255.0.0"))
> return "DIRECT";
> else
> return "PROXY wpad.kal.kalsec.com:8000; PROXY
> wpad.kal.kalsec.com:8080; DIRECT";
> }
>
>
> I'm doing this because, when squid is "Store rebuilding" it is very slow
> about carrying out cache requests.
>
> Squid mostly only does this when I do a squid -k reconfigure.
>
> My first question is, why does squid have to do this every time I send it
> a reconfigure command?
It doesn´t , at least not for me, and I mean upon :
% squid -k reconfigure
using STABLE12 (too).
> My second question is, I see there's a command-line option to tell squid
> to ignore cache requests until store rebuilding is complete.
-F
But it´s known to be somewhat broken, because SQUID still accepts
connections at the TCP level; so you get stale connections.
There is a bugzilla for that somewhere.
M.
