Linux box as Windows Update server (proxy)

From: Tomasz Popik (pulapka-google_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: 19 Aug 2004 05:51:36 -0700

As you know,

new installed WindowsXP is open for any atack, and time to update it
via windowsupdate.microsoft.com:80 is much longer than time to get
viruses. IT specialist said about 20 minutes. In this case, not
possible to secure your box.

Here came to me an idea. To set up squid server to store all patches
from microsoft web sites. After first person downloads all patches
from Internet, next will download it from LAN much faster.

It is not difficult to set squid and point it to cache only windows
web sites. But i found problem in determining IP addresses of
Windowsupdate server. It uses akamaitechnologies clusters and each
time skip for next ip.

I cant configure my iptables DNAT script to cache all connection to
microsoft via proxy. And i do not want to cache all internet traffic.

Can you help me witch this IPs or how to filer trafic to my squid?

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