From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 13:37:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A4E37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RKZaL38232; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:35:38 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:35:36 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser X-X-Sender: To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Subject: Re: FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports? In-Reply-To: <20020627103338.C21360-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: <20020627173257.K37725-100000@localhost> 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 On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > 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... The most used caching proxy is squid. it does FTP and HTTP. It is in the ports. But... For your particular problem, I'd export /usr/ports via NFS and mount it on every host in your network. That way you download *and* compile only once. Fer > > Thanks! > > -philip > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message