From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 4 00:14:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29290 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from render.gu.kiev.ua (render.gu.kiev.ua [193.124.51.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA29275 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (root@creator.gu.kiev.ua [193.124.51.73]) by render.gu.kiev.ua with ESMTP id KAA13480; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:07:31 +0300 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by creator.gu.kiev.ua id KAA01108; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:05:39 +0300 From: Andrew Stesin Message-Id: <199609040705.KAA01108@creator.gu.kiev.ua> Subject: Re: proxy server for FreeBSD? To: tim@print.gfmurray.com Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:05:38 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: stesin@gu.kiev.ua In-Reply-To: <199609031927.MAA11539@print.gfmurray.com> from "tim@print.gfmurray.com" at Sep 3, 96 12:27:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk | | Try 'cached' from the HARVEST collection....works great....a breeze to set up Please DON'T DO THIS. Cached suffers from _many_ inconsistencies in it's behaviour (i.e. it also caches broken responces from servers), it isn't supported any more by it's developers (but commercial cached _is_, probably ;) Squid suffers from apparent bugs (I plan to upgrade the port in the collection to at least 1.0.12 until Monday, I lack hardware resources just now) but is pretty much superior to Cached. I _strongly_ suggest using Squid. best, Andrew Stesin -- nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE