On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:23 -0500, Ben Hollingsworth wrote: > Using this setup, what will happen if one of those servers goes down? Squid detects that the server is down and stops using it until it becomes alive again. > Will half of the requests fail, or will squid transparently resend the > request to the working server? It will automatically skip the failed server after a couple of requests (at most 10 failed attempts). > Is there any way to specify automatic connection persistence, where all > requests from a certain client will go to the same back end server so as > to maintain session state & the like? This is what the srchash balancing method gives.. (squid-2.6+ only, not yet in squid-3) Regards Henrik
