Re: OT: Cache Server side-effects
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote:
>
> So my questions:
> 1) Does anyone have experience enough with caching servers to
> verify/deny that it is causing the problems?
> 2) Are there any client-side settings that I can make on my Debian
> boxes to bypass the cache server?
> 3) If the caching server is causing the problems, is it due to a
> misconfiguration, or is it just the nature of a caching server, and
> there's nothing that can be done about it short of disabling it entirely?
>
First of all: there IS a simple solution:
don't use deb http://... lines, use deb ftp://
I had some problems using a proxy server and apt-get, but it wasn't
slowing down, it just didn't work. [Got some strange protocol errrors]
I'm using 2 providers, and one(telenet belgium) of them doesn't allow http
traffic through their network, they force you to use their proxy server.
The other provider (wanadoo belgium) offers a proxy server, but doesn't
force you to use it.
When I noticed the forced proxy-use, I set up a transparent proxyserver
on the masquerading box. (iptables + t(rans)proxy)
- because I didn't want to change the settings of the computers on the
intern net.
When the apt-get problems came up, I just switched to using only
ftp-servers (ftp.de.debian.org) for my sources list.
So, the simple solution:
go to www.debian.org, look there for the mirror list and use a nearby
ftp-mirror.
Dries
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