I was showing my students the process of using a squid server and building linux kernels. Have done this in the past, but today it didn't work the same. The squid server is setup differently, so there may be something I missed in setting up the parent that caused the difference. In the past, it was just a local squid server, and would cache on the same 1000M network of my classroom. 192.168.7.0 with squid server on 192.168.7.3. But had changed the configuration to use one of our ISPs proxy server as a parent due to geographic issues. When doing updates using our local college IP addresses, we would connect to Austrial and/or New Zealand repos that are really slow from Guam. The one ISP has a squid server at proxy.guam.net and allows us to use it, and it has a US based address, so it connects to US sites which are much faster. Normally, I would download the file on a machine locally, so it was in the local squid servers cache, but now that it uses the ISPs server as a parent, it didn't seem to cache the file on the local server, but only on the ISPs server. Instead of downloading the file via the local server via 1000M connection, it seemed to be downloading multiple copies through the 20M connection to the ISP taking about 30 minutes with about 10 machines downloading the 70+M 3.17.3 kernel file from kernel.org? Is there an option that would have the local squid server cache a file locally thru the parent so other request would come from the local squid server. Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 21741707.098117 | SETI 37660772.805449 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 40346326.419899 _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
