Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 09:39:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <28932.818444381@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 11:24:50 CST." <199512081724.LAA12717@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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> Why not do it by state (or maybe timezone) for US sites? i.e. have a > "ftp1.wi.freebsd.org" for an ftp site in Wisconsin, or something like > that... Well, I didn't want to bite off *too* much here or this will never get done. Maybe after we've got the major countries done we can start thinking about subdividing the U.S. :) > Another idea we were tossing around at work yesterday might be a way to have > the install floppy send "test" pings to various ftp servers, to see which > might be fastest (closest? ala traceroute?) automatically, and recommend a > good ftp server on that basis. If someone wants to write me a nice stand-alone module for doing this, I'll certainly consider adding it. :-) Right now I have far too many things on my wish list that are important to truly necessary functionality to consider putting time into stuff like this, I'm afraid. :( Jordan
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