Interesting. Reading http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube confirms what you write below.
I was going from memory of when I used it a few years ago. I set it up mainly to get Dansguardian restrictions, but it felt much faster (subjectively of course) Perhaps youtube was less dynamic or I was just lucky. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:19:05PM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: > keep in mind that without mucking with it / addons squid wont proxy > youtube (style) videos. > > On 02/27/2012 11:56 AM, Matthew Hannigan wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:29:48PM +1100, Jim Donovan wrote: >>> Recently my ISP discontinued the ADSL plan I was on and put me on another >>> plan with three times the bandwidth. This is fine however one of the kids >>> likes watching YouTube and can now chew up a month's data in a few days. >> [ .. ] >> >> Jim, >> I suggest using a caching proxy like squid. They're very effective because >> kids tend to watch >> the same vids over and over again. >> >> You can set all sorts of limits within squid, too like time of day >> restrictions. >> >> Matt >> >> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
