[pca] sunsolve slooowwww ..

[Martin Paul]

Martin Paul wrote:
> Is it just me, or is sunsolve.sun.com so slow that it's practically 
> unusable?

It is just me, as it seems :) Obviously it was my turn to get at one of 
the bad machines in the sunsolve pool. As this affected my local caching 
proxy, which connects to sunsolve frequently, it is still directed at 
the broken sunsolve backend server all the time.

I've used an elegant workaround, though: I set up another pca proxy on a 
different machine (and, BTW, it's really as simple as stated in pca's 
docs, took me 5 minutes :) and redirected the original proxy by pointing 
xrefurl/patchurl at the new proxy via its pca-proxy.conf.

All the clients still connect to the original proxy (so I don't need to 
change pca.conf on all machines). The original proxy doesn't connect to 
sunsolve, but instead to the new proxy, which downloads files from 
sunsolve. Nice!

Martin.