Amos Jeffries-2 wrote > On 20/08/2013 4:31 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote: >> Hi All. >> I've been doing lots of reading and I believe I am understanding the >> basic >> concept of how to use Squid. >> /I've posted the hardware that I am using at the bottom of the post/. >> >> I have about 12 windows machines running at any one time and I was hoping >> to >> start using Squid to speed up the Windows updates in this environment - >> *NOTHING ELSE FOR NOW*, as I don't want the cache to potentially >> interfere >> with the other work going on. >> I will consider adding complexity as I go and continue to learn how to >> use >> it. >> >> For Practise I installed Squid using apt-get on a Linux Mint15 >> installation >> - install went smoothly. >> >> I found the the *How do I make Windows Updates cache?* wiki here: >> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate >> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate> >> >> It looks straight forward - just copy and past the appropriate settings >> from >> that page into the squid.conf file. >> >> What I am not clear on is how to NOT CACHE anything else? >> Would someone be able to help me with that? > > The "cache" directive is what controls whether the reponse to a request > will be stored. > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache/ > > Amos Thanks for jumping in Amos. Does this make sense then: (START OF CODE FOR SQUID.CONF FILE) #========== #/Below is what I'd copy and past from the FAQ for windows updates:/ #========== range_offset_limit -1 maximum_object_size 200 MB quick_abort_min -1 refresh_pattern -i microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern -i windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims # Add one of these lines for each of the websites you want to cache. refresh_pattern -i microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern -i windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern -i my.windowsupdate.website.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims # DONT MODIFY THESE LINES refresh_pattern \^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern \^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 #====================== #Then I'd add this to ONLY cache the windows updates: #====================== acl mywindowsupdates dstdomain .my.windowsupdate.website.com .windowsupdate.com .microsoft.com cache allow mywindowsupdates always_direct allow all (END OF CODE FOR SQUID.CONF FILE) Should I change the cache allow mywindowsupdates always_direct allow all ... to cache allow mywindowsupdates cache deny all Thanks for the help -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Cache-Windows-Updates-ONLY-tp4661643p4661679.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
