On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_squid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > : 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 What would be really nice is a command line option and a bit of code in the cache peer setup that recognizes own IP and ignores the entry, to make this problem just all go away... I should code that up, but not early tonight... -- -george william herbert george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx
