On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> A small note:
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:20:49PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > In contrast, Debian has (at least) two mirrors on WAIX, if I don't
> > mirror the updates myself (I can do so easily) they too go into my Squid
> > cache.
>
> Did you modify squid's config for caching debian "perfectly"?

No. Should I?

>
> Do you ever get any problems with partial downloads?

No. Should I?

>
> Anyway, debain has no formal mirrors of the security apt source (unlike
> , say, Mandrake)


I don't imagine it sees less traffic than Red Hat's site does, but so
far I've not had any problem with download speeds.


One _can_ mirror the updates though, and I may do so when it makes sense
to do so.

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John.

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