[squid-users] Re: DNS Fail-over Problem Squid does not realize chrashed webservers

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:04:48 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Josef Schmitz wrote:

> clients only need 1-3 seconds to realize which server
> is down and redirect all other requests to the
> remaining ones. Tested with Firefox, Opera and IE.
> Squid reacts different. It does not realize that one
> server is down, so the user will receive a lot of web
> time-outs and has to reload every page serveral times

It does detect the failure, but it's timeout is considerably higher..
(default 2 minutes).

See connect_timeout.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Feb 11 2006 - 18:04:52 MST

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