Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:45:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: dan@langille.org (Dan Langille) Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ Message-ID: <200308011445.h71EjQNq010582@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> from "Dan Langille" at Aug 01, 2003 10:15:21 AM
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Dan Langille wrote: > On 1 Aug 2003 at 15:50, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > A few months ago someone mentioned another idea on this > > list, which I would like to repeat. An automated mechanism > > could contact every FTP server (say, once per day) and > > check which collections that server is carrying, i.e. which > > releases and architectures, whether they have ISOs and the > > FTP install directories, and which package sets are there. > > > > That information would be collected and converted into a > > "survey" of all FreeBSD mirror sites. This file should > > be easy to parse. That survey would be put on the master > > FTP server, and _every_ mirror would be required to sync > > that particular file often enough (say, once per day). > > It could be called /pub/FreeBSD/.mirror-info or whatever. > > You should see http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/ I know that one. It has some similarities to my suggestion, but it's not exactly the same. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often.
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