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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
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Subject: Re: How can I mirror update.freebsd.org for offline use?
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:42:40 -0400
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Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:

> I have some servers that have no direct access to internet. They can
> access a "support server" running linux, and that machine can access
> the net.
>
> I need to mirror update.freebsd.org so I can run freebsd-update
> locally. I have no interest in building my own version, I simply want
> a local mirror that I can set in freebsd-update.conf. I'm not what is
> the best, most preferred, way to do this, without putting unnecessary
> load on update.freebsd.org. Any ideas?

If you can run a caching proxy server on the support server, that would
be the easy thing to do.