[squid-users] MS Update

[Amos Jeffries]

On 11/01/2016 11:18 p.m., Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 11 January 2016 at 18:54, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>>> guessing I have to bump up the 200M max to 800mb.
>>
>> Maybe. But IMHO use the ACLs tat range_offset_limit can take.
> 
> your suggesting to limit the offset limit to just the windows update sites

Just the site(s), or may even just the URLs where service packs are put.
The /svcpk/ part of the URL looks interesting in that way, though you
would need to research.

> 
>>
>>> are the other values still okay ?
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> so if I bump it up to 800Mb it will start to work okay again ?

"work okay" is a matter of perspective and bandwidth. It will enable the
larger items to cache and HIT. But you will still spend more bandwidth
than than you miht like.

> 
> so using http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate which i
> used to get the rules
> the special way to make this work is
> 
> turn off all the client pc. then do a single download of the file -
> this will place all of it in the cache
> 
> then I can turn the other clients back on ..
> 

Yes.

But, "turn off" could be ACLs in Squid that reject the download from
everyone but you rather than going around every client machine manually
twice.

Amos