Re: Failed to select source

At 09:41 AM 11/25/98 +0100, Robin Breyl wrote:
>Hello,
>
>thanks for all the replies on my previous questions. Both
>problems are solved now.
>And, yes, I know about the RFC952 and the illegal undescore.
>But the machine is only inside our firewall and no DNS servers
>will ever know it's there.

Verify if your outer proxy works 100% and if so you should check your FW. I've
seen similar things happening in FW's. (Don't forget a firewall is a single
choke point in your network and don't believe vendors who tell you other wise)

>
>But now I ran into another problem. I still have two proxies
>in a hierarchy.
>When I open an URL in a browser connected to the "inner" proxy
>sometimes not all images on the opened page are loaded.
>
>The logfile (of the inner proxy) show this after accessing the CNN
>homepage:
>
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| Failed to select source for
'http://images.cnn.com/ads/advertiser/cnn/9805/promos/horoscopes120.gif'
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| always_direct = -1
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| never_direct = 1
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| timedout = 1
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| Failed to select source for
'http://cnn.com/images/1998/05/homepage/cnn.website.gif'
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| always_direct = -1
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| never_direct = 1
>> 1998/11/25 09:31:51| timedout = 0
>
>
>Note, that the html file itself is loaded, only some of the
>embedded pictures are not.
>Since this is not happening always, but only in about 60% of all
>requests, I'm not sure what it is about.
>I tried to fiddle around with several timeout settings, but it
>didn't changed this behaviour.
>
>Again, any help welcome.
>
> Robin Breyl
>
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