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RE: windows update cache

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Fri Sep 28 11:37:59 2007

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:14:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <46FCC0D6.11874.701541A@mmata.intercom.com.sv>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> I'm having a really hard time with the Windos updates. Is=20
> there any product or way around the cache those updates? I=20
> know there are for enterprises, but are there for ISPs?

Windows Updates are not really cacheable because MS changes the contents
of their patches without changing the names of the files. You can read
more here:

http://usefulthings.org.uk/www/caching-windowsupdate-in-squid

--Michael Dillon


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