> I have a couple of webservers with a shared filesystem (for > /var/lib/php/session and more), identical apache config and > enforced https on all connections. > > We use round robin dns to distribute the load over them. This > seems to be working perfectly fine with direct connections, but > when accessed trough squid, the pages never fully loads. The browser > ends up looping over all elements in the page again and again.. > > The squid access.log fills up with: > > 1210543497.362 257 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 4472 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.6 - > 1210543497.559 106 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 3512 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.5 - > 1210543497.747 174 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 21485 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.6 - > 1210543499.581 193 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 5080 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.5 - > 1210543500.606 931 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 4248 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.6 - > 1210543500.970 235 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 3880 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.5 - > 1210543501.342 313 192.168.11.16 TCP_MISS/200 3896 CONNECT > rrdnshostname:443 janfrode DIRECT/192.168.41.6 - > > so I guess this can be a problem with squid trying to distribute > the load over both servers, instead of just picking one as the non-squid > browser would do. But even without squid, we can see that the browser > handles failover to the next host just fine as soon as the dns ttl expires > and it picks the second ip-address. > > Any ideas what might be causing the problem here ? Can we make squid stick > with one ip-address for longer periods, instead of going to both addresses > simultaneously? balance_on_multiple_ip off in squid.conf should stop any IP-rotation within squid unless the IP its trying to use fails. Please in future indicate which version of squid you are using. I sort of get the idea you are attempting to accelerate / reverse-proxy the website through squid though. For one of those setups please see: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy Amos
