[squid-users] Inconsistent Cache Peer Selection in Accelerator mode - Squid 3.3.8

[Amos Jeffries]

On 12/08/2016 6:31 a.m., Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2016 at 20:25:04, Adam Vollrath wrote:
> 
>> Good afternoon! I'm configuring Squid 3.3.8 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.  It's
>> in reverse proxy mode and has some explicit peers specified.  My issue
>> is that sometimes requests get forwarded to that specified peer, but
>> sometimes squid just forwards directly itself.
>>
>> `squid.conf` has these lines:
>>
>> http_port 127.0.1.2:80 accel ignore-cc act-as-origin allow-direct
> 
>> Can I prevent it from forwarding requests directly?
> 
> I'm not an expert on reverse proxy mode, but do you think "allow-direct" might 
> be your problem?
> 
> That sounds to me as though you are telling Squid it is allowed to forward 
> requests directly, instead of having to rely on peers...

Exactlys so.

Amos