[squid-users] dead gateway, not dead peer..

[Amos Jeffries]

On 23/06/2016 1:25 a.m., B. Cook wrote:
> ​when the one of the proxies loses its internet connection.. the default
> route is gone.  Not the route to the machine..
> 
> the 12.194 proxy then gives this message:
> 
> The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL:
> http://www.tmz.com/
> 
> Connection to 54.230.36.213 failed.
> 
> The system returned: (101) Network is unreachable
> 
> The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.​
> 
> 12.194 can not get to 54.230.36.213 (tmz.com)..
> 
> I can still get to 12.194..
> 
> Squid is still running on 12.194, 12.194 has no gateway.. the Internet
> connection FROM 12.194 TO the outside is dead and gone.
> 
> That is what I am trying to fix..
> 
> When a cache_peer has a connectivity problem..
> 

Aha. I thought you were talking about the routing between them.

The solution comes down to what HTTP response status code is being sent
back on that "Network is unreachable" error page created by the
cache_peer without connectivity.

Amos