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Subject: Re: Run your own portsnap mirror?
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patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have
> one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and
> then internal servers pulling from the private mirror?

It runs over pipelined HTTP, so all you need to do is set up a caching
HTTP proxy, and have your internal servers use that.