Cacheing at archie.au (was Re: US link is upgraded)

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From: Matthew Hannigan
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 05:43

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kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz) writes:
> [ .. ]
>It would truly be nice if everyone could avoid using ftp to fetch
>files from the US - at the very least, look on archie.au first.
>What's more, if a file is not actually there in the regular mirrors,
>you can always have archie.au fetch it for you, and cache the result so
>should anyone else want the same file it doesn't need to be transferred
>over the US link again.

How does one do this? (Have something cahed at archie.au)

>The first 30 minutes of operation of the new link saw more than 160Mb
>imported into Aust (total bytes, includes ftp & everything else)
>now after about 50 minutes we're at about 280 Mb.
>Just where is all that data going???

Into porno scrapbooks?

Regards,
	-Matt

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