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On Nov 12, 2011 8:05 PM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:40:08 Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> > On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: |
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> > > * www-servers/boa |
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> > > Available versions: |
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> > > ~ 0.94.14_rc21 "~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64" |
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[doc] |
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> > > |
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> > > Homepage: http://www.boa.org/ |
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> > > Description: A very small and very fast http daemon. |
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> > > It can be easily locked down for internet facing roles. |
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> > > I've also used thttpd (you can throttle its bandwidth if that's |
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important |
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> > |
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> > in |
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> > > your network), but it's probably more than required for this purpose: |
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> > > |
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> > > * www-servers/thttpd |
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> > > |
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> > > Available versions: |
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> > > 2.25b-r7 "amd64 ~hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86 |
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> > ~x86-fbsd" [static] |
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> > |
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> > > ~ 2.25b-r8 "~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 |
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> > ~x86-fbsd" |
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> > |
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> > > [static] |
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> > > |
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> > > Homepage: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ |
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> > > Description: Small and fast multiplexing webserver. |
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> > Thanks for all the input! |
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> > During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' |
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> > server share the distfiles dir via NFS? |
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> > So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of |
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NFS-sharing vs |
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> > HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office, thus, a |
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trusted |
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> > network by definition. |
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> HTTP is not really 'sharing'. It is just 'copying'. Clients download the |
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> distfiles from the home server to minimise load on the gentoo mirrors. |
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Yeah, should've put quotes around the sharing part. |
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> Following the download a client machine will have a local copy of said |
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distfile |
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> in the client://usr/distfile. |
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> With NFS there is only one copy of the file, on the server, shared by |
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other |
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> clients in the LAN. |
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> In my case the server is not always on, so NFS would not be appropriate. |
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Hmmm, you have a point there. |
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Rgds, |
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