Re: [squid-users] Pessimal behavior with Windows Update (Long)

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Brett Glass wrote:

> 4. Encourage Microsoft to modify Windows Update so that it can "discover" a
> server on which updates are preloaded or cached. Currently, SUS and WUS
> require modification to a client machine's registry; this is practical for
> organizations with IT staffs but not for ISPs. An ISP should be able to run a
> Web cache, FTP server, or Web server to which Windows updates are downloaded
> once and then distributed downstream. Microsoft has a financial incentive to
> do this, because its updates are currently distributed through Akamai (which
> undoubtedly charges it by the bit for downloads). Alas, we can't hold our
> breath waiting for Microsoft to do such a thing. Therefore, the modifications
> to Squid mentioned above are essential to providing an efficient solution --
> not only to Windows Update issues but also to issues with similar updating
> systems from Intuit and other software vendors.
>

Not that this solves the general problem, but for your specific case, have
you approached Akamai to request they put one of their caches in your
facility? Looking at this
<http://www.akamai.com/en/html/partners/akamai_accelerated_network_program.html>
It looks like it shouldn't be too hard to get them to do that.

> The first three of these items should be implemented as soon as possible, so
> that administrators of Squid caches can safely cache Microsoft's updates. Now
> that the largest of these have grown to more than 700 megabytes, the need is
> urgent.
>
> --Brett Glass
>
>
>

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