Re: [squid-users] 2 questions about refreshing cache

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 21.59, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:

> I have been using squid 2.4 for a while and I noted that if I type an url (
> http://www.somesite.com) and there is no connection to the internet squid
> fails to retrive the page (obviously). But, when I connect to the internet
> and type the url again, squid keeps reporting that the domain somesite.com
> is unaccessible. Squid caches this and I have to restart it, so it can make
> a dns lookup and access the site. This is a little bit annoying, is there a
> way to configure squid that it will always do a lookup no matter how many
> failures before where on the particular domain?

See negative_ttl and negative_dns_ttl in squid.conf.

> Question 2.
> How can force squid to refresh an a webpage stored in the cache doing it
> from the browser, for example, if I would add "()" to the end in the URL:
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org()

Push the reload button in your browser. Is what it is meant to do. If it does
not help, use shift+reload (or control+reload in some browsers)

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