From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 13 04:51:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA14624 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA14619 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id HAA10428; Mon, 13 May 1996 07:52:52 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605131152.HAA10428@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: harvest cached configuration question To: PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.au (PETER STUBBS) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 07:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <751C0D28A4@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> from "PETER STUBBS" at May 13, 96 02:08:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I configured cached as a cache accelerator, but it gave an error when > I used it. The error said that the request was in the wrong format. > When I make it a proxy accelerator, it works fine, but doesn't pass > the requests that aren't in the cache to CERN, it just goes & fetches > them by itself. It does go to CERN only if the requested info is on > the local server. I have never seen a configuration where it will pass the requests on. I use it with a local modem to provide proxy and cacheing support for my company. I am not aware of it's ability to block certian sites. You might look at a perl cache program called ichthus. It does have blocking, proxying, and caching. > > The other problem is that it clears out its cache when it's > restarted. I'd *much* rather keep the cached info. One thing is to make sure that you shut down the cache cleanly.. if it is aborted, I believe it looses its tables and will cleanout the cache. FreeBSD would benefit from the SYS V startup and shutdown setup ( /etc/rc.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/rc1.d etc.. ) for these types of things. -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson