On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a mail in /var/mail/root which I received in my server logs > http://paste.ubuntu.com/532866/ > I see same packages downloaded many times again and again. > The servers which are upgrading are total 5 (4 virtual machines and one host) > so is there a way I can save bandwidth on this sort of setup.
Your question and the various responses inspired me to finally post my solution to this problem: * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/11/yet-another-ubuntu-archive-proxy.html Pasted here, in part: Here's my solution... To install, simply: sudo apt-get install approx Then set the URLs you want to proxy, in /etc/approx/approx.conf: ubuntu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ubuntu-security http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu I configured my proxy machine to listen on port 80: sudo dpkg-reconfigure approx Next, I took a little shortcut on my dd-wrt router's DNSMasq options, so that I don't have to configure to each and every one of my guests to point to my local mirror. I want that to happen automatically and transparently to my guests. So I set my router to authoritatively serve my local proxy's IP address as the resolution for archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com. The additional DNSMasq options for me are: address=/archive.ubuntu.com/security.ubuntu.com/10.1.1.11 where "10.1.1.11" is my proxy's static IP address. This ensures that all of my guests transparently use my local proxy, without having to perform custom configuration on each. Now on the proxy itself, I don't want archive.ubuntu.com to point to the localhost, as that won't work very well at all! So for that one machine, I changed its DNS to point to Google's Public DNS at 8.8.8.8. echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf Alternatively, I could manually set the IP address of archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com in that machine's /etc/hosts. Moreover, if I ever need to disable the use of the caching proxy on a single guest, I can simply and temporarily change that machine's DNS to 8.8.8.8 as above. I'm really finding this to be a handy way of speeding up my network installs and package upgrades on my set of Ubuntu machines at home. I'm not wasting nearly as much disk space or network bandwidth, and I don't have to configure anything on each and every client or installation. :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
