Re: [squid-users] Using Squid to cache Kazaa (Yes ! It can be possible !)

Hi Mihai,

    Due to performance purposes my cache don't log
    but I'll do another test tomorrow and cut the logs.

    Neilson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mihai BUHA" <owlman@ss.pub.ro>
To: "Neilson Henriques" <neilson@predialnet.com.br>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Using Squid to cache Kazaa (Yes ! It can be possible !)

> Hi Neilson,
>
> I wonder what's in your access.log for that test. I looked at the
> kazaahttp weppage and it suggests that it only uses the CONNECT
> method, which is actually an uncachable tunnel...
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Neilson Henriques wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I did some tests with a small and nice soft called KazaaHTTP
> > (www.iprisma.com/kazaahttp) that translate a SOCKS 5 connection
> > to a HTTP one. My big surprise when I tried to download a "licenced"
> > music from Kazaa from one machine and tried again from other. The
> > speed reaches 1033 kbytes/s (yes ! squid cached it nicely) !
> >
> > Well ... at this moment you already figured out what happens when
> > Kazaa asks for small (and different) chunks of the file from other hosts ...
> > obviously, the squid doesn't have a way to cache it ...
> >
> > This list is composed mainly of sysadmins that see tons of their
> > bandwidth going away day after day and I'm pretty sure that everybody
> > here will like to have a way to cache this content using a grateful and
> > reliable code that squid is, instead to use a proprietary and costly code
> > (PeerCache, CacheLogic, etc).
> >
> > I don't know anything about squid internals so my question is:
> >
> > "Duane, can't squid have a module to handle this kind of use?"
> >
> >
> > Neilson
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 27 2004 - 11:00:44 MST