On 28/10/2013 8:27 a.m., Beto Moreno wrote:
Hi. Reading my config file squid-3.1.x, I found a parameter called netdb, googling a little a found a site, what I understand is that. netdb is used when u have a bunch of squid cache servers and u use icp/htcp stuff. In a company where u used a single cache server for security and speed up the company network, we don't need netdb settings. Do I understand right or netdb is useful in my network layout?
netdb is the internal "Network Measurement Database" used by Squid for calculating RTT and traffic loadings between itself and any given upstream server.
In the recent Squid releases it requires --enable-icmp to enable ICMP pinger but also pulls in additional details from ICP, HTCP and HTTP connection and response timing. It seems to only be used by the background weighted peer selection algorithms such as weighted-round-robin.
Amos
