Registration

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:

Tag Name

announce_period

Usage

announce_period time units

Description
This is how frequently to send cache announcements. To announce your cache, enable this tag.

Default

The default is `0' which disables sending the announcement messages.

announce_period 0

Example
To send cache announcements every day, use this line

announce_period 1 day

 

Tag Name

announce_host
announce_port

Usage

announce_host hostname

announce_port port

Description
announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port number where the registration message will be sent.

Default

Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will default to 3131.

announce_host tracker.ircache.net
announce_port 3131

Example
announce_host cache.kovaiteam.com

announce_port 3131

 

Tag Name

announce_file

Usage

announce_file filename

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.

Default

none