Squid Bug?

From: Brian <signal@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:01:01 -0600 (CST)

I am seeing this with squid-2.2.STABLE4.

Not all web sites on the Internet have a unique IP address. Some share an
IP address. Since modern browsers send the requested host/domain to the
server in the header, the web server can make a decision about which
website to pull up. An example of this is:

Name: teachyourselfmusic.com
Addresses: 207.155.252.12, 207.155.248.7, 207.155.252.7, 207.155.252.72

Name: deductbox.com
Addresses: 207.155.248.7, 207.155.248.14, 207.155.252.72, 207.155.252.12

Name: slingo.com
Addresses: 207.155.248.14, 207.155.252.72, 207.155.248.7, 207.155.252.12

etc, etc.

These are totally different web sites. Yet for some reason, once our
squid caches them, it mixes them up. Someone will request say
deductbox.com, and actually pull up slingo.com, etc.

I am not sure what the problem could be, but its something in squid. This
only happens with websites that use the same IP addresses. I am assuming
it may be something in my configuration file.

Note: This is using multiple squids and a layer4 switch to balance
accross them. I am wondering if the layer4 switch in any way could be
guilty?

Brian

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Brian Feeny (BF304) signal@shreve.net
318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal
Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
Received on Fri Mar 24 2000 - 09:04:54 MST

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