> I know that if the backbone link fails, squid will still try to connect to > the internet ?? >and if the backbone link re establish squid will automatically > re establish too. My question, how long can Squid waits for the re > establishment of backbone link, that the squid service can tolerate and will > not shutdown it self automatically. fyi in using Squid-2.5Stable13. > > - Squid will never shutdown when the Internet link is not available, connection attempts will fail however , leading to failing statuses for/from URI's in access.log and lot's of related info in cache.log however. The induced pre-assumption(s) , are therefore simply wrong. M.