[penguicon-general] Post-con Report

[Jeff Hanson]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Peter Smith <psmith.gllug at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The server that GLLUG brings to run the Computer Lounge is rather
>  complex in nature; in the
>  midst of that complexity is a mirror of what we hope will be the
>  distributions that people will be
>  looking for. Our Burnbox as well contains the ISOs it distributes,
>  locally. So, this is why you
>  didn't see this being a problem; very little, if any, of those
>  downloads, were even leaving the
>  confines of the Lounge; and if they did, they didn't leave more than once.

Someone tol me about your setup and I thought it was a good solution
to the problem.  I had brought an apt cache dump just in case but I
didn't need it.  I only installed one distro and it was Puppy as the
target laptop only had 64MB of RAM.

>  The Lounge server did in fact have a huge proxy.  Initially, there were
>  some configuration
>  problems to be ferreted out at almost every possible point (how DO these
>  things happen
>  when the system that was working just fine LAST year is plugged in THIS
>  year?), but
>  ultimately, it was just a matter of the sheer mass of hotel Wi-Fi,
>  Lounge and LAN party
>  connections weighing far too heavily on the hotel's solitary pipe to the
>  outside world.

The proxy would have to be moved upstream to be useful but I'm not
sure it would be practical as the hit/miss ratio isn't all that great
given the size of the Internet these days.