From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 11:24:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520CD37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5RINwdq026939; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5RINwQX026936; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports? In-Reply-To: <3D1B5895.5020704@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20020627112316.W25451-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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