From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jan 30 12:50:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5AB37B401; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AE243E4A; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UKoI0i089620; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UKoHUD089619; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200301302050.h0UKoHUD089619@apollo.backplane.com> To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Scott Long , Sean Chittenden , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images References: <3E2E58E8.7020903@btc.adaptec.com> <20030122191836.GC12075@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3E2EF005.9010107@btc.adaptec.com> <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org : :[followups directed to hubs@FreeBSD.org] : :On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:24:53PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: :>=20 :> Please re-read my message. Our mirror network is a donated resource. :> We can't go dictating to them that they need to buy more storage and :> wider pipes in order to continue the 'priviledge' of mirroring for us. :> They are the ones doing the favor for us, we are not doing them any :> favors. We show our appreciation for their donation by being :> considerate to their needs. :>=20 : :It seems to me that the time may have come for a vertical splitting of :the DNS name space in favour of sites that want to mirror only certain :architectures. In envisage ftp.alpha.uk.FreeBSD.org, or :ftp.ia64.uk.FreeBSD.org. Of course the DNS could be set up as: : : ftp.alpha.uk.FreeBSD.org CNAME ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org : ftp.ia64.uk.FreeBSD.org CNAME ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org : :or other permutations. : :Something like this would allow the installer software to still know :where to go to install the bits, but would give more freedom as to :who mirrors what. At the moment in the installer the user can select :a site to install from, but there's no guarantee that it has the bits :mirrored there. : :Joe :--=20 :Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ I think it would be far easier to simply have each site create a resource files, /pub/FreeBSD/resources.txt or /pub/FreeBSD.resources, which lists mirror services available at that site. Then a simple script on freefall or hub could run through the list of download sites and collect all the resources file together into a master list. sysinstall (etc) could then use the master list to provide selections to the user. This would give sites far more flexibility. For example, a site might hold both the alpha and ia64 mirrors, and instead of having to pull CNAME tricks with someone else's DNS the administrator would need only edit a single file (/pub/FreeBSD.resources) on his site. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message