better support for local security update proxies

[Matt Zimmerman]

I use squid successfully in a variety of environments for this purpose.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:12:18PM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> I know theres a couple alternatives, e.g. apt-cacher (im sure some of
> the other people on the list could tell you what better ones there are)
> the other alternative is just a squid proxy with a large object size cache.
> 
> Trent
> 
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:48:48AM -0700, Jon Saints wrote:
> > We are deploying more and more ubuntu machines at our
> > University in Malawi.  Our internet connection is via
> > satellite and is expensive so we are trying to be sure
> > that ubuntu updates are done efficiently.
> > 
> > Currently we are using apt-proxy to accomplish this,
> > but we are not finding it to be very robust (routinely
> > kills connection and doesn't do well when multiple
> > machines connect at same time).  
> > 
> > Its not just those of us behind lowband internet
> > connections that would find improved support for local
> > security proxies useful. I think any large scale
> > deployment of Ubuntu would be interested as well.
> > 
> > Are there any development efforts within Ubuntu
> > Community to improve support for local proxies for
> > security updates that we might be able to get involved
> > with? Or is improving apt-proxy the way to go?
> > 
> > Thanks for your thoughts.
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
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