From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 18:02:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A2B10656A3 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3fd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49DE8FC0C for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7TI2ZYk067538 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:02:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C7AA0B6.3010703@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:02:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Agnelli Barbosa References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE8CE354BB6050351EE952692" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.2 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Freebsd - Doubts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:40 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE8CE354BB6050351EE952692 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29/08/2010 15:37:51, Felipe Agnelli Barbosa wrote: > I am wanting to mount a mirror, to place repositories of debian / ubunt= u, > because many machines in my company update the repositories and doing s= o > will improve the process performance. > However, I do this in FreeBSD (with spegla, ftpmirror ...), and was > wondering if it is possible, if not I will take issue with that. > I'm new here on the list, so excuse me if the correct place to ask that= is > not here. >=20 > Grateful for the cooperation, Sure, this is certainly possible with FreeBSD. You can run a FTP mirror on it quite happily. That's the sort of thing that would work pretty well on any unixoid system to be frank, so your choice of FreeBSD might need justifying by some external criterion: "FreeBSD runs ZFS", "We get better network performance with FreeBSD" or even "I'm the sysadmin around here, and I like FreeBSD, so nyer." Check the ports for ftp mirroring programs. Both the ones you mention are available. Another approach is to use a caching proxy -- squid will do this for ftp URLs, as will apache (using mod_proxy). You can even be completely evil and set it up as a transparent proxy with a little work. The advantage of using a caching proxy is that over time it will pretty much auto-tune itself to contain the distfiles your users are interested in without your having to have any prior knowledge. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigE8CE354BB6050351EE952692 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx6oLsACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxvqwCfZnlwdUb7Rzkj5wNaFxh4Mi9O 1UYAn3+4inslHr0jcYcmkyufnFhmIb7P =Yb0V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE8CE354BB6050351EE952692--