[squid-users] about squid choose sibing

[Amos Jeffries]

On 5/05/2015 12:46 a.m., Guang Wei wrote:
> sibing, cache digests and NetDB
> Squid's network measurement database is designed to measure the proximity of origin servers. In other words, by querying this database, Squid knows how close it is to the origin server.
> 

Not quite. NetDB contains all destination timings including other proxies.


> Think about that
> web server A& parent squid B(located in China), child squid C(in China), child squid D(in USA)
> or 
> web server A & parent squid B(located in China), parent squid C(in China), parent squid D(in USA)

parent of what? child of what?

Please document the connectivity segments in grapviz notation
 (client -> proxyB -> server),
or describe clearly what each network connection is for all connections
separately,
or show squid.conf cache_peer lines labelled by proxy.

Amos