How can I mirror update.freebsd.org for offline use?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Sep 2 21:42:41 UTC 2015


Palle Girgensohn <girgen at pingpong.net> writes:

> I have some servers that have no direct access to internet. They can
> access a "support server" running linux, and that machine can access
> the net.
>
> I need to mirror update.freebsd.org so I can run freebsd-update
> locally. I have no interest in building my own version, I simply want
> a local mirror that I can set in freebsd-update.conf. I'm not what is
> the best, most preferred, way to do this, without putting unnecessary
> load on update.freebsd.org. Any ideas?

If you can run a caching proxy server on the support server, that would
be the easy thing to do.


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