Hello, We have made some progress. We actually have two squids in parallel with DNS load balancing. We had been running them as each others parents so that we could try to reduce the load on the backend server. If we stop cache_peering, then the timeouts go away. The relevant lines for server1 are cache_peer server2.domain parent 3128 3130 acl SERVER src server1.domain server2.domain cache_peer_access server2.domain allow !SERVER We configure the two as parents rather than as siblings, because, for an expired file, squid won't bother querying a sibling. So, at this point, we have a choice between collapsed_forwarding or the cache_peer relationship. Is there some better configuration setup we can try? Thanks very much. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:09 pm Subject: Re: Collapsed forwarding question To: BARRY J BLUMENFELD <bblumen1@xxxxxxx> Cc: Squid Users <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ons 2007-05-16 klockan 21:12 -0400 skrev BARRY J BLUMENFELD: > > No, we are not using range requests. > > So the squid should forward what it has to each connection, one > after the other, as data comes in from the origin server? > > Yes. > > But it might get a little upset on very large responses if the first > client stalls, not reading the response. Not entirely sure if that's > handled well. > > Regards > Henrik