On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:28:32 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:16:24 +1000 > Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Weelll, > > > > maybe ... but how do they know it's me trying to ping them??? > > That depends on how they implement the blocking. It may be that they > block by adding to their firewall rules. That may also block pings. > > However, the traceroute that someone else posted seemed to indicate that > arrnet may consider TPG a foreign host and block it for that reason > instead. > > > And anyway, > > they should love me, because I went to the trouble of installing squid > > to save multiple downloads ... > > How much is squid actually caching? Squid has a number of rules for not > caching files larger than a certain size. Is it possible that your squid > cache is full and not caching as much as you think it is? > > You may want to look into apt-proxy instead. > Hmm, well, I just checked and the cache is ... EMPTY! Go figure ... squid must clear the caches or something because it was definitely cacheing stuff when I was loading debian onto a batch of alpha boxen a few weeks ago. I guess I should RTFM and find how how it works. BTW, I did configure it to accept large files. Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
