True, it does. But having your LAN proxy run a part of the yahoo infrastructure might be a bit of overkill.
Especially while there are packages like pfsense an ipcop that do the same, but with compiled sources available and eh, even a GUI! rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: www.startyourbusiness.ug On Monday 30 November 2009 17:25:21 Emmanuel Mulo wrote: > Actually as I understand it, it does both.... > > > Reinier Battenberg wrote: > >> Hi Joseph, > >> > >> This seems more targetted at the other end of proxiying. > >> You can put this proxy in front of your website, which will take the > >> load off your apache server. > >> > >> > >> > >> rgds, > >> > >> Reinier Battenberg > >> Director > >> Mountbatten Ltd. > >> +256 782 801 749 > >> www.mountbatten.net > >> > >> Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: > >> www.startyourbusiness.ug > >> > >> On Monday 30 November 2009 14:50:04 joseph mpora wrote: > >>> Pfsense has been pretty good for us, haven't seen need to change :) > >>> > >>> Joseph > >>> > >>> On 11/30/09, Emmanuel Mulo <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I am not sure whether this information has been previously posted on > >>>> this > >>>> mailing list, however I saw something about Yahoo traffic server being > >>>> released as open source. Since I have seen previously a number of > >>>> requests concerning proxy servers for load balancing, content > >>>> filtering etc... would be interesting to hear from any sysadmins > >>>> experimenting with > >>>> this. It is used by Yahoo so it has to be good for something no? :) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Traffic+Server > >>>> http://ostatic.com/blog/guest-post-yahoos-cloud-team-open-sources-traf > >>>>fic > >>>> > >>>> -server > >>>> > >>>> Anybody who does something with it please update us.. at least I > >>>> would be > >>>> interested to hear.. Joseph? Reinier? > >>>> > >>>> cheers > >>>> Mulo > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> LUG mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>>> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >>>> > >>>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > >>>> (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for > >>>> them in any way. --------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> LUG mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >>> > >>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > >>> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > >>> way. --------------------------------------- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > >> (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for > >> them in any way. > >> --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
