[squid-users] pinger without peers

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>On 10/03/2017 6:36 a.m., Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> does it have sense to run pinger without having cache peers configured?
>>
>> if I get the "Network DB Statistics:" output properly, it seems that 33% of
>> hosts is unreachable.

On 10.03.17 08:33, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>The code using it is called peer-selection, but that includes choosing
>between origin servers (DIRECT) as well as cache_peer lines. So it can
>affect traffic routing even if you dont have cache_peer. Though less
>that RTT based cache_peer LB algorithms.

does that mean pinger output is used for servers with multiple addresses?
does it only ping servers with multiple addresses?

>The sad results are due to admin ICMP echo blocking. Hopefully that is
>all they are blocking though and not other mandatory ICMP codes like
>path-MTU discovery.

of course. But since I'm trying to solve different problem, I'm thinking of
trurning off everything that can cause issues.

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