From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 30 18:56: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D92514C49; Sun, 30 May 1999 18:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA41825; Sun, 30 May 1999 20:55:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 20:55:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Christian Kuhtz , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org Message-ID: <19990530205539.B41328@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19990529161158.A9898@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Kris Kennaway" on Sun May 30 18:03:34 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message