On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:47 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > Something frustrated me, that is every time I updated my Mandrake PCs > on > my network here, I found myself downloading the same updates for each > system off the update sites. The problem with that, it was just a > waste > of bandwidth, plus speed of the updates downloading each time > etc..etc.. > O.K. I found a solution that I thought that I would share with > everyone, > I found that I could build a update cache using Apache and using it's > ProxyPass module.. to build the cache.. here's my config, and if > anyone > could suggest improvements please do.. Another option is to use rsync to mirror whatever updates directories you are interested in and make a local FTP server just to serve up the updates to the other machines, then point each machine to the FTP site, using rpmdrake or urpmi. This is what I do here, although I have two FTP repositories. One for the intranet, and one for my DMZ (I don't want to allow in traffic to my local LAN from the DMZ until I can use urpmi in rsync-over-ssh mode). This way, you considerably reduce your bandwidth if you have a few hundred MB somewhere to spare. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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