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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:35:36 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports?
Message-ID:  <20020627173257.K37725-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020627103338.C21360-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>

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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
>
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