[GLLUG] question/suggestion for adding a proxy/cache.

[David Lee Lambert]

2011/4/9 Charles Ulrich <charles at bityard.net>

> [...] 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.
>

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.

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