> I have a single squid box running FreeBSD that is behaving very strangely. > With certain types of media files, most notably mp3, ra and wmv files, squid > lists them as mime type text/html. Another oddity is that when requesting > these types of files, the IP of the squid box shows up as the source of the > file, rather than the original server. Its almost as if squid thinks it has > the item in the cache, regardless of the fact that the object is a cache > miss. Has anyone seen this behavior before? An example from the box's > access.log is below. The IP of the squid box is 10.0.1.3 > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > 1131727283.043 116 10.0.1.224 TCP_MISS/200 2757 GET > http://www.ojaiwan.net/audio/cowbell.wmv - DIRECT/10.0.1.3 text/html > > The remote websever may be a fault; returning insufficient mime types. Check this out with : http://web-sniffer.net/ If squid requests an object from a remote webserver then logic tells that the source address of the requestor is the ip address of the SQUID box. M.
