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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:37:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports?
Message-ID:  <20020627103338.C21360-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020627180641.S1497-100000@exile.ucc.ie>

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Hi all -
	I've got a small LAN (4 machines) and I tend to install a lot of
the same ports on all the machines (usually using portupgrade).  What I've
been doing up till now is installing on one machine and then ftp'ing the
distfiles over to the other machines and installing on them.   I know I
could build packages and do it that way, but for whatever reason I don't.

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...

Thanks!

-philip


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