Re: Complete local mirror.

["C. Falconer" <criggie@ihug.co.nz>]

At 09:37 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
> I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for 
> all of my machines here.  It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it 
> would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian 
> servers that are being pummelled right now.
...
> I plan on having Debian on at least 4 machines (I've already got it on 3), 
> probably on the 4th by the end of the day.


I suggest you install squid on one of your boxes and point apt-get 
there...  squid will cache the packages from the first download, and 
they'll be fast for the subsequent ones.  Its hardly worth using 10 Gb for 
a couple machines to get packages faster.


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Criggie