From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 18 12:15: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9596B37B405 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:15:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01538; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:14:36 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:14:36 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Jim Pazarena Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up a mirror web server In-Reply-To: <10107181158.aa08361@ccstores.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You don't want a mirror you want a cache. Try squid or one of the many commercial products. This will (possibly) improve performance if you really have a thin pipe. On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jim Pazarena wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:58:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jim Pazarena > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: setting up a mirror web server > > I have a remotely hosted server for the www. portion of my business, > and I maintain a mirror server where my dial-ups are. > > I'd like to have my local dial-ups hit my local mirror server rather than > go out my (thin) pipe to the remote site to pull back their local web > pages from the remote host location. > > I can do this in 1 of two ways that I can see. > > I can configure the local server with the same IP as the remote one and > then set routes to it in my local routers, or, > I can set my DNS to feed the local IP to local dial-up DNS requests > and provide the remote IP to outside world DNS requests. > > I can't reason which is more better ;-/ > > advice please. > > -- > Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@qcislands.net > http://www.qcislands.net/paz > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message