2011/4/9 Charles Ulrich <<a href="mailto:charles@bityard.net">charles@bityard.net</a>> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> [...] The only reason I stopped using Squid for caching was because all of my desktop hard drives were faster than the server which was doing the caching. </blockquote><div> Same experience here ... the cache was useful when I had several computers behind a dialup modem, and even then there were times when it didn't really help (because a site was using cookies, or sent different content to IE than to Firefox, or I and my wife browsed different sites anyway), but currently it's a major failure-point (old box crashes and the internet goes Poof!) and a significant delay. For the specific problem of caching OS updates on Debian or Ubuntu, I just NFS-mount or SCP-copy /var/cache/apt/archives after I've done a bunch of updates on one system, before doing the same updates on other systems on the same network. </div></div>-- David L. Lambert <<a href="mailto:davidl@lmert.com" target="_blank">davidl@lmert.com</a>> or <<a href="mailto:lamber45@msu.edu" target="_blank">lamber45@msu.edu</a>> or <<a href="mailto:david.lee.lambert@acm.org" target="_blank">david.lee.lambert@acm.org</a>>, formerly "<a href="mailto:as4109@wayne.edu" target="_blank">as4109@wayne.edu</a>" IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or <a href="mailto:lamber45@cse.msu.edu" target="_blank">lamber45@cse.msu.edu</a> (MSN) Phone: 616-676-7375