Re: [squid-users] *.windowsupdate.com

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:05:51 +0900

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007, Solomon Asare wrote:

> And until recently, I was getting terrible sigle digit
> hit rate. I don't know what has happened, I guess
> windowsupdate.com did something, and that is why I
> posted it to the list.
>
> My understanding was each update was a differential of
> each persons installation and the update package,
> making it unique to each client, hence the poor hit
> rate. Something has changed!

Hm - some of the content is distributed via Akamai and that stuff seems
to be horrible to cache. Query strings that seem to just be timestamps,
range requests all over the place.

Check the logfile entries and see how they've changed?

Adrian

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