Coredump

I got Squid load balancing to work. All I did was tweak squid.conf on both web cache servers to make them peer siblings.

Then I cranked up a automatic proxy configuration script based on hints from the Netscape site. What it basically does is compute the hashes based on the URL string of the site to be visited. The script then chooses between the two proxies from which to connect.

For direct connections, i.e. for local servers and servers on the DMZ, connections are to be made directly. The http_direct directive in Squid doesn’t seem to work for my setup, though. Trivial Boolean logic, I guess. Will have to look into that.

Finally, I got the proxies to work. Now on to LDAP authentication. And, oh, I’m also currently installing Jabberd 2. Turns out the staging server doesn’t have gcc installed so I had to install them first. (Thank goodness for yum. That Yellow Dog is cool.)