Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:14:36 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> To: Jim Pazarena <qcinet@ccstores.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up a mirror web server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107181313390.1527-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> In-Reply-To: <10107181158.aa08361@ccstores.com>
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You don't want a mirror you want a cache. Try squid or one of the many commercial products. This will (possibly) improve performance if you really have a thin pipe. On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jim Pazarena wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:58:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jim Pazarena <qcinet@ccstores.com> > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: setting up a mirror web server > > I have a remotely hosted server for the www. portion of my business, > and I maintain a mirror server where my dial-ups are. > > I'd like to have my local dial-ups hit my local mirror server rather than > go out my (thin) pipe to the remote site to pull back their local web > pages from the remote host location. > > I can do this in 1 of two ways that I can see. > > I can configure the local server with the same IP as the remote one and > then set routes to it in my local routers, or, > I can set my DNS to feed the local IP to local dial-up DNS requests > and provide the remote IP to outside world DNS requests. > > I can't reason which is more better ;-/ > > advice please. > > -- > Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@qcislands.net > http://www.qcislands.net/paz > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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