Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports? Message-ID: <20020627112316.W25451-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <3D1B5895.5020704@potentialtech.com>
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> Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Hi all - > > I've got a small LAN (4 machines) and I tend to install a lot of > > the same ports on all the machines (usually using portupgrade). What I've > > been doing up till now is installing on one machine and then ftp'ing the > > distfiles over to the other machines and installing on them. I know I > > could build packages and do it that way, but for whatever reason I don't. > > > > I started looking into caching proxies that would help automate this > > process somewhat, but I haven't had much luck. I tried jftpgw (FTP only) > > but could never get it to work right. Tried Apache's proxy which says it > > will do both, but it seemed to only cache HTTP and it's not really > > designed for "long term caching" so to speak. > > > > Anyone have any suggestions? Seems like this would be a common thing to > > reduce bandwidth... > > In addition to the other suggestion (use NFS, which I have been doing with > great success) you can use squid, which will cache both FTP and HTTP. I thought I read that squid wouldn't do FTP... so I never tried it... looks like it does though. I'll take another look at it. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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