On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote: > > So my questions: > 1) Does anyone have experience enough with caching servers to > verify/deny that it is causing the problems? > 2) Are there any client-side settings that I can make on my Debian > boxes to bypass the cache server? > 3) If the caching server is causing the problems, is it due to a > misconfiguration, or is it just the nature of a caching server, and > there's nothing that can be done about it short of disabling it entirely? > First of all: there IS a simple solution: don't use deb http://... lines, use deb ftp://
I had some problems using a proxy server and apt-get, but it wasn't slowing down, it just didn't work. [Got some strange protocol errrors] I'm using 2 providers, and one(telenet belgium) of them doesn't allow http traffic through their network, they force you to use their proxy server. The other provider (wanadoo belgium) offers a proxy server, but doesn't force you to use it. When I noticed the forced proxy-use, I set up a transparent proxyserver on the masquerading box. (iptables + t(rans)proxy) - because I didn't want to change the settings of the computers on the intern net. When the apt-get problems came up, I just switched to using only ftp-servers (ftp.de.debian.org) for my sources list. So, the simple solution: go to www.debian.org, look there for the mirror list and use a nearby ftp-mirror. Dries
