[squid-users] caching youtube content

I'm the sysadmin at a University.  Our students looove youtube!  I wanted to cache youtube content - some of these files are 5-50MB .. so the savings would be great.   However I have run into a problem that would affect the efficiency of my cache...

Apparently youtube uses multiple servers (with different hostnames) to serve the same content.  For instance,

http://lax-v87.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=kEysFttcIkE is a 8MB flash video.
And
http://lax-v88.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=kEysFttcIkE is the same video.

I would like to tell squid that it should consider hosts of lax-v[0-9]*.lax.youtube.com to all have the same content.

If they only had one or two servers, I wouldn't care so much - but they have presumably hundreds.  If their site tells my clients to go to a randomly-assigned host to get the content,  I'd rarely get any cache hits.

I'm still reading through the documentation and FAQs.. but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for.
Received on Fri Jan 12 2007 - 08:30:50 MST