Dear list, i am actually using STABLE18 and was stumbling across this : http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/cfgman/announce_period.html Default Value: announce_period 0 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The default is `0' which disables sending the announcement messages. now i checked this setting with : $ ./squidclient -h <mybox> -p <myport> mgr:config|grep announce announce_period 31536000 seconds announce_host tracker.ircache.net announce_port 3131 but I never have configured this parameter so I assumed that it would take the default value. I would like to have it off. I also explicitly set "announce_period 0" but in vain. Any hint ? kind regards, Jan