Time for action – configuring Squid to switch peer relationship

For example, let's say we have configured sibling.example.com as a sibling proxy server but sibling.example.com allows us to forward requests to .edu domains, even if there are cache misses. So, we can have the following configuration:

cache_peer parent.example.com parent 3128 3130 default proxy-only
cache_peer sibling.example.com sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only

neighbor_type_domain sibling.example.com parent .edu

In accordance with the previous configuration, we can fetch cache misses for .edu domains using sibling.example.com.

What just happened?

In this section, we learned to switch the peer relationship, from sibling to parent, dynamically for certain domains.

Controlling request redirects

We have just seen a list of directives, using which, we can use different peers to forward requests based on various parameters. In addition to the previously mentioned directives, Squid provides a few more directives, using which we can force...