: The DNS way would indeed be nice. It's not possible in current Squid : however, if anyone is able to sponsor some work it might be doable. If i can demonstrate enough advantages in getting peering to work i might just be able to convince someone to think about doing that ... but that also assumes i can get the operations team adament enough to protest having a hack where they need to run a "config_generator" script on every box whenever a cluster changes (because a script like that would be fairly straight forward to write as a one off, it's just harder to implement as a general purpose feature in squid) : With Squid-2.7 you can use the 'include' directive to split the squid.conf : apart and contain the unique per-machine parts in a separate file to the : shared parts. yeah, i'm already familiar with inlcude, but either way i need a per-machine snippetto get arround the "sibling to self" problem *and* a way to reconfig when the snippet changes (because of the cluster changing problem) -Hoss
