this is my squid and its complied options: $ /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE18 configure options: '--prefix=/usr/local/squid-2.6' '--enable-async-io=256' '--enable-epoll' '--disable-carp' '--enable-removal-policies=heap lru' '--disable-wccp' '--disable-wccpv2' '--enable-kill-parent-hack' '--with-large-files' '--with-maxfd=65535' '--disable-ident-lookups' thanks! On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > J. Peng wrote: > > hello, > > > > How to handle the case of the original server was down? I use squid > > for reverse-proxy, if I add some lines like: > > > > cache_peer parentcache.example.com parent 80 0 > > cache_peer childcache2.example.com sibling 80 0 > > cache_peer childcache3.example.com sibling 80 0 > > > > if original server was down, does squid go to query other caches like above? > > Will squid get cache MISS object from its sibling? or it can only get > > cache MISS object from the parent? > > Which version of squid? They all have different capabilities for this. > > > Amos > -- > Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17+ or 3.0STABLE1+ > There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases. >