[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

David Manchester mustang at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Oct 25 11:55:54 WST 2000


> UCS won't peer with UCC, but UCC is free to use proxy.uwa.edu.au as a
> parent.  Any Squid box is going to take not-insignificant resources
> away from other things, so unless you're going to do it properly, I
> don't think its worth doing at all.

Unless we do it on currently unused shit, like the big suns.
 
> A resource friendlier solution would be to have a custom proxy forward
> requests to the UCS proxy.  In the proxy response it finds out whether
> it was a hit or miss, and if its a miss, you charge based on the
> hostname of the website. (free for uwa.edu.au, ii.net, iinet.net.au, .au
> rates for .au, telstra.com, telstra.net, int rates for everything else).

Have the router forward all outgoing web stuff through it?

> I'm sure yakk already had one of these written.  If he hasn't, I'll
> write one this weekend.  Although based on previous experience, yakk
> will have already written one by then :-)

*snicker*

> > > Why do the X-terms need to move to Mussel?
> > > So you can run bloated, slow KDE or GNOME compliant WMs on them?
> 
> Netscape, Dave.

Which is significantly more stable on DU than Linux, last time I checked.
Why is netscape a consideration, Dunc ?

> > ja.  And having them on the same segment should hopefully stop them
> > sucking the network dry of bandwith.
> 
> I hope you mean switch and not segment :-)

Word.

Cheers
/dave
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