From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 16:23:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0EC106564A for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabian@wenks.ch) Received: from batman.home4u.ch (batman.home4u.ch [IPv6:2001:8a8:1005:1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F1A8FC14 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:23:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at home4u.ch Received: from flashback.wenks.ch (fabian@flashback.wenks.ch [62.12.173.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by batman.home4u.ch (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1LGNb3L084647 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:23:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from fabian@wenks.ch) Message-ID: <4F43C508.2090005@wenks.ch> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:23:36 +0100 From: Fabian Wenk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org References: <201202211529.q1LFTeSd033735@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <201202211529.q1LFTeSd033735@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Query about the usage of FreeBSD mirror sites for other projects X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:23:41 -0000 Hello Oliver On 21.02.2012 16:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ultimately, it would be cool to have a more flexible and > dynamic system for distfiles. > > Clients wouldn't download directly from certain FTP mirrors > anymore, but they would contact an "index server". The index > servers maintain a list of locations where each distfile can > be found, similar to a very specialized search engine. These > locations can be FreeBSD mirrors or mirrors of other projects > (Debian, Gentoo, whatever) or just random sites anywhere on > the internet. The "MASTER_SITES" information currently I really like it, that I can download from a mirror which is near on the network, as it is much faster then from anywhere else on the internet. So random distribution will just generate more global network traffic, which is often more costly (for the ISPs) then local traffic with free peering between regional ISPs. > I'm aware that such a system would require quite some work. > It's just an idea that came to my mind, but maybe it's worth > further investigation. Maybe it should get an entry on > FreeBSD's "project ideas" page. Eventually doing something with regional reverse caching proxy, which is able to get missing files in the background from the master. Subsequent request will then be served from the local cache. bye Fabian