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Reply To: Heath, caching sites such as

Heath, caching sites such as wikipedia is probably not the best way to go. Its simply too unlikely most of it will ever be used. Though caching its top few thousand pages may be a fair idea. Bastidge is right on using a caching proxy. My own suggestion on such a proxy would be to extend the cached websites TTL and also let the servers query cached sites for updates during hours that average the lowest bandwidth usage. This way the most commonly accessed sites are kept nice and up to date, DNS poisoning is less likely to happen(I'm paranoid, sue me :P ), and the updates will have the lowest perceivable impact on the network.

It may also be worth using(as an auxillary not replacement) a large lan or even man network(depending on community size) to create an "internet" by and for that community to host information relevant to the community. A plus is that it'd work faster, a downside is it would be limited in access. So I think a combination of the two would be useful. But that's just me.