Unnatural Uses

["Kent, Mr. John" <ke...@nrlmry.navy.mil>]

Greetings,

Using Squid as an accelerator with an Apache Light and an Apache Heavy
(mod-perl) server.

Now trying to at load balancing via the redirect.pl script

for http://mako.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home

Doesn't work.

While the redirect does change the URL, whenever it changes it to
sgi-demo.nrlmry.navy.mil:8888

I get a Squid generated error page which says

"The requested URL Could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://sgi-demo.nrlmry.navy.mil:8888/tc-bin/tc_display

The following error was encountered:
  * Connection Failed

The system returned:
  (126) Cannot assign requested address

The remote host or network may be down.  Please try the request again"

Funny thing is that the server is UP and that when I click on the hyperlink
Squid says it can't connect to it comes up fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  (Good, Bad or Ugly)

Here is my redirect.pl script:

#!/users/webuser/perl/bin/perl
$| = 1;

# Testing switching between two servers
my(@HEAVY) = qw{sgi-demo.nrlmry.navy.mil 127.0.0.1};

my($i,$j) = 0;

while(<>){
   
    if ($_ =~ /sat-bin|tc-bin/){

        my($value) = $HEAVY[rand(@HEAVY)];
        # Rotate servers
        s%127\.0\.0\.1(:\d+)?%$value%;

        # Specify heavy mod_perl server for cgi scripts
        s%(:\d+)?/sat-bin%:8888/sat-bin%i && next;
        s%(\:\d+)?/tc-bin%:8888/tc-bin%i && next;
    }

} continue {
    print LOG "$$ > $_\n";

    print;                                     # falls through to
apache_light
}

John Kent
(831) 656-4890
Monterey, CA