I'm off topic, but if you want to manage windows updates better, you can check out M$ for a free patch system. They are SUS and the newer one, WUS.
You have to join another mailing list for support :) hehehe hth. 'Jopoy On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:26 +0300, Junix Gaspar wrote: > Hello Pluggers, > > Another Q? > > We are frequently updating computers here in our place and Im using > squid+dans for my proxy. > > however, I noticed that the windows updates program taht should be > cached in the squid proxy doesn't stay there. Whenever I update a > computer and tried to update other computer (of the same > brand/model/os), the windows update again start to download from the > "update.microsoft.com" which is not what a proxy in between should do. > > Inshort, it seems that the update file is being downloaded again in > the from the site and it is not cached in the PRoxy server. > > My questions are: > > 1. Is it because I need to modify somethin in my proxy? > 2. Is it because http://updates.m$.com doesn't allow that (program > updates) to be cached? > 3. is because the whole transaction is encrypted and therefore not > cached in the proxy server? or somehow cached but because its > encrypted it does not give it to other transaction because its another > session? > 4. ? > > And yes, we do have a repository of all the bells and whistles > (windows update) in our file server. it just that I want to understand > why its not caching? > > thanks, > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
