Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:34:28 -0600 From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <200001221934.NAA14918@chiba.3jane.net> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b4af302c2e41@[172.16.99.111]> References: <XFMail.000121104339.jdp@polstra.com> <v04220800b4af302c2e41@[172.16.99.111]>
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Robin Melville wrote: >At 10:43 am -0800 21/1/00, John Polstra wrote: >>[...] we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org. >>The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacity and well-connected site, >>yet hardly anybody is using it. Please give it a try! > >Hi > >Might it be worth load sharing these via duplicate dns entries for >cvsup.freebsd.org, so that callers get one at random? due to dns caching and the totaly arbitrary nature of this method, it almost never does what you expect it to. damon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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