[ILUG] anyone using TCD's annoying proxy setup?

[bobb]

Ian O'Connell hath declared on Wednesday the 13 day of October 2004  :-:
> Not overkill? heanet gives speeds of 8megs/sec getting apt updates,

Depends where you are on the TCD network ;)
Some places your lucky if you get 500k, sometimes its worse than that...

> and combine that with tcd's proxies cache'n the updates after one
> machine gets them? 

I'm not sure if the tcd proxies actually do any cashing these days...
I heard a rumour that they are just used for authentication.
We go through our own anyway...

> is there really enough debian machines inside tcd
> to justify it? 

*shrug* we have about 150 odd, but that will be growing...

> We have our's currently getting them off heanet with
> our own local proxy server cache'n the files.

We have been using apt-proxy which does a decent job.

However for people who use the tcd proxies, there is also the
problem of having to put your authentication details in
apt.conf/environment or whatever...

Mainly just a handiness thing... disk space is cheep :-)

- bobb

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