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Date:      Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:38:14 +0200
From:      "Vlad K." <vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update's "Fetching patches" phase?
Message-ID:  <0f41085ce2c14ad63627a3379dfaee5a@acheronmedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160813142023.620de294@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <823dd643595a5be72671fd5d9c7199b0@acheronmedia.com> <20160813142023.620de294@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On 2016-08-13 15:20, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:28:43 +0200
> 
> That's where the updates are downloaded.

Yes, but I mean specifically the patches, since this is binary upgrade, 
and is followed by "Fetching files" of equally large number of them.



> It might be because of the MITM vulnerability in freebsd-update.

Ah, that might explain it. But is that the case?



> If you use a proxy each client should be have HTTP_PROXY set to the
> same thing as this is used the seed the random selection of origin
> servers. If you intercept the connections it wont cache well.

Actually I'm not using HTTP_PROXY at all, but I've set ServerName in 
/etc/freebsd-update.conf to hostname where the rev proxy is. There nginx 
is running with proxy cache, including cached 404s.



Thanks for your reply!


-- 

Vlad K.



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