Lo all, I seem to not understand always_direct / never_direct properly....
acl local src 66.18.x.x/29 cache_peer a.a.a.a parent 3128 0 no-query no-digest no-netdb-exchange round-robin cache_peer b.b.b.b parent 3128 0 no-query no-digest no-netdb-exchange round-robin cache_peer c.c.c.c parent 3128 0 no-query no-digest no-netdb-exchange round-robin always_direct allow local never_direct allow all The basic idea is that everything is fetched from the parent cache, EXCEPT for those (destination) ip addresses specified in local... EVERYTHING else, gets fetched from the parent caches provided squid does not have it cached locally already (different between sibling and parent cache, right?)... The clients are in 192.168.1.0/24 accessing squid transparently... So, what's wrong with this picture... I'm pretty sure I am missing something in the never/always_direct, but I'm not sure what. On another note, I average about a 40% hit rate at the moment... With allot of refresh_patterns, and only a mere 512MB proxy dir.... Would adding another 1GB or so for squid make any significant changes to the hit rate?? And, whilst I know it prob wont be recommended, will a cache_dir operate successfully on a NFS Mount?? Regards, Chris.
