OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache announcement service. This service is provided to help cache administrators locate one another in order to join or create cache hierarchies.
An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the following information from this configuration file:
Usage
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announce_period time units
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Description This is how frequently to send cache announcements. To announce your cache, enable this tag.
Default
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The default is `0' which disables sending the announcement messages.
announce_period 0
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Example To send cache announcements every day, use this line
announce_period 1 day
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Tag Name
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announce_host announce_port
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Usage
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announce_host hostname
announce_port port
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Description announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port number where the registration message will be sent.
Default
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Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will default to 3131.
announce_host tracker.ircache.net announce_port 3131
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Example announce_host cache.kovaiteam.com
announce_port 3131
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Usage
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announce_file filename
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Description If the 'filename' argument is given, the contents of that file will be included in the announce message. See also announce_host and announce_port.
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