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I want to know what differs in the following two lines:

cache_peer cache.myparent.example parent 3128 3130
cache_peer cache.sibling.example sibling 3128 3130

For you reference, this says:

If you have to use your Internet Service Provider's cache, you will have to configure Squid to query that machine as a parent. Configuring their cache as a sibling would probably return error pages for every URL that they do not already have in their cache.

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Got it, if parents fail, parents will forward the request on behalf of the child, but if siblings fail, just a cache miss returned, no op.

This is the reference, it seems squid lost its glossary in its docs: http://artemisa.unicauca.edu.co/~dabravo/squid24s1/glossary.htm#sibling

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  • I think for clarity, your first statement should say "If the parent does not hold a requested object, it will forward the request on behalf of the child" (from docs) as opposed to "make request on the child". Good docs though.
    – kaizenCoder
    Jul 14, 2019 at 1:20
  • OK, I will improve the answer.
    – schemacs
    Jul 14, 2019 at 5:43

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