Squid caching website status messages
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I currently have pfSense 2.0.2-RELEASE (i386) installed with Squid 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.3. I have all port-80 traffic passing through Squid. I've noticed that if a website becomes unavailable and I fix the web server, I will continue to get website unavailable messages until I restart the Squid service. Afterward, it returns back to normal. It's not truely caching web content, but it seems to be caching the HTTP status of pages. Is there a way to turn this off? I have everything left blank in the Cache Mgmt tab, Access control has "127.0.0.1;192.168.0.1;" for the external cache-managers, and no other specific settings enabled that would cause such behavior. My custom options for Squid are:
strip_query_terms off; ident_lookup_access allow all; ident_timeout 3 seconds; http_port 192.168.0.1:8080 transparent;
Can anyone provide a direction to look in?
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Maybe there is a little more than I initially thought. I have two websites here, one "default" site that listens on all addresses and URLs, and one that listens to a specific URL. The "default" site doesn't currently have anything but a "directory listing denied" message. If I have both sites running and load up the URL, I get the expected website. If I stop that website's service on the server and reload the URL, I get "directory listing denied". Turning the website back on, I continue to get "directory listing denied" until I restart the Squid service. Ideas?
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Try with these custom options:
negative_ttl 1 seconds negative_dns_ttl 60 seconds positive_dns_ttl 6 hours dns_timeout 30 seconds -
That resolves that problem. I've been trying to google the meaning of each, but details are pretty vague.
Thank you very much for the tip! It makes my life easier.
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On squid-cache.org you probably find a description for nearly all config options. An example:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/negative_ttl/And you have the possibility to check the different values for the different squid versions.