Hi and thanks a lot for your answer. It confirms what I thought :o( And unfortunately the squids won't be on the same lan at all. In so far as I have a lot of little data chunks to propagate, I'm going to think about an "intelligent" way to pull them to the distant squids. Best regards, JLT ----- Mail original ----- > El sep 20, 2011 8:03 a.m., "Jean-luc Tresset" < jltresset@xxxxxxxxxx > > escribió: > > > > Hi ! > > > > I'm currently thinking about the best way to build a little CDN like > > system based on squid. I've already understood how to manage the DNS > > problems, but I wonder what is the best way to push the same content > > at the "same time" on different server. Is it possible with squid ? > > > > Regards, > > JLT > > Hi Jean, > > Well as you don't give too much informatio, I guess you want to have > many squids distributed and depending somekind of dns load balancing > squid1 or squidN shall answer. I also asume you are taling in reverse > proxy schema. > > Well, first bad news is that it is kind imposible to push objects in > cache. So, if you want to warm it, you shall do a script to pull > objects throug squid until they get in. > > The good news is that there is a way to workarround your request. You > may use peers squid with multicast capabilitie (multicast is optional, > only if all squids are in same lan). Use your peers with a ttl=5, it > is fater to ask a peear than a http parent. > > LD > http://www.twitter.com/ldlq
