[squid-users] cache_peer selection

[Amos Jeffries]

On 13/05/2023 2:53 am, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 5/12/23 07:28, Alexeyяр Gruzdov wrote:
>> Hello Guys!
>>
>> Thank you for your help that was before!
>>
>> Could you explain somethings - For example I have a five cache_peer 
>> servers
>>
>> peer1
>> peer2
>> peer3
>> peer4
>>
>>
>> And users like:
>>
>> User-100
>> User-101
>>
>> For forwarding requests over  existed cache_peer I use an external 
>> ACL and "note" option - all works well.
>>
>> Now I'd like to implement the next logic:
>> This is something like a failover of specified cache_peers for 
>> specified user.

One trick I use is to list each cache_peer twice (like: A1, B1, C1, A2 , 
B2, C2). Just use a different name= parameter for each cache_peer line.

That way I can "loop" the order when I want A,B to be a failover from C. 
Like this:  C1, A2, B2.

HTH
Amos