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Date:      Sun, 30 May 1999 20:55:39 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Christian Kuhtz <ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <19990530205539.B41328@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905301755320.7365-100000@bragg>; from "Kris Kennaway" on Sun May 30 18:03:34 GMT 1999
References:  <19990529161158.A9898@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905301755320.7365-100000@bragg>

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In the last episode (May 30), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > FYI.. cvsup5.freebsd.org (2xXeon, also wearing the hat of cvsup4)
> > is also still not at capacity and welcomes anyone in need of CVSup
> > services, updates are also hourly from freefall.
> 
> I was wondering the other day about the feasibility of setting up
> some kind of load meter for the various cvsup servers, so people
> could determine the best one to use and share the load a bit more.
> Perhaps this could even be taken a step further and cvsup could
> choose the optimal server for you based on an end-to-end network
> bandwidth metric and the server load.

A simple round-robin DNS for all the active cvsup servers should
suffice; make it cvsup.freebsd.org, stick it back in the sample cvsup
config files, and put a comment mentioning that if you only cvsup once
a day or less it will work fine.

I think the only complaint about RR servers (the last time this was
brought up) was that if you cvsup'ed twice in a short period of time,
you might catch two servers with different update times (differing by
up to an hour).

> I'm sure there are many people who aren't using the optimal server
> for their network location.

I don't think bandwidth is a problem; I used to cvsup daily from a
14.4K modem and it only took 5 minutes.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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