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

Peter Christenson pac1.mi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 19:59:31 EDT 2011


thanks you all for the responses. I am hoping to test this out and if it
works I want hope to track my bandwidth for the next few weeks and see if I
can see a drop. again thank you all for your input.

Peter.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:05 PM, David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:

> 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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