Re: Proxies used by ISP's ?

I don't understand what a proxy has to do with this. How could a proxy
be responsible for same files and different dates, or what ever you are
experiencing?

Whitham

On Nov 27, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Greg Madden wrote:

> I have a Debian mirror that I update through a cron job. About a week
> ago I noticed that no new packages were being downloaded. I tried a
> different mirror with the same results. These were two mirrors that I
> regularly use, archive.progeny.com & linux.csua.berkley.edu. I switched
> to a third mirror, debian.oregonstate.edu and I get all the packages
> from the previous week.
>
> I was wondering if ISP's use proxies because on a Debian mirror certain
> files always have the same name, different dates of course. It seems
> like I am getting cached files that indicate that my mirror is up to
> date. Is this a likely scenario ? I use ACS, could it be ACS?
>
> TIA
> --
> Greg Madden
> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
> Phone: 907-276-0461
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