On 09/17/2013 05:37 PM, John McGowan wrote: > Eliezer, I don't know how I missed this before when I looked at my > configuration file. > > I had the line.... > > connect_timeout 3.0 seconds Makes sense in a case that the upstream service\server takes time to respond. This can be because of your proxy is treated like a DOS service in a case of more then a specific amount of connections is over the basic limit. > > In my case the problem is most definitely occurring when connecting to > a small subset of the servers. Those servers are likely under load > and that's why I'm seeing the issue. > You can do a tcp_ping to the services not by the squid service and to do a small tcpdump to see how it reacts. > I tried setting things back to the default 60 seconds and things are > working as expected. Great > > I think what happened is that I was reading the documentation and saw > that the default was 1 minute, and had assumed that my config file was > not overriding that default. I was wrong. Happens to the best of us. In a case you see that the solution didn't make it I'm here. Eliezer