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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org 
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 09:39:41 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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