From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Oct 16 6:13:57 2002 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 83E4B37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E94AA43EAA for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9GDDbPg003889; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:13:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:13:36 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Cejka Rudolf Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, Jun Kuriyama Subject: Re: Fw & Re: Small fix to articles/hubs In-Reply-To: <20021016094217.GA2688@fit.vutbr.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -104.4, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Cejka Rudolf wrote: > Just one mirror ftp without ftp[12]: ar bg cz fi no nz ro sg > Just one mirror ftp == ftp1: hk is lt > Just one mirror ftp == ftp1 == ftp2: ru > More mirrors with ftp1; ftp == ftp1: de gr jp tw > More mirrors with ftp1; ftp != ftp1: "" cn > More mirrors without ftp1; with ftp != ftp2: at au hu ie nl pl se si sk uk za > More mirrors without ftp1; with ftp == ftp2: es fr ua > > What to do? There are almost all possibilities :-) Just to change > formulation in articles/hubs, or make some cleanups in domains? > I would prefer domain cleanups in any way, but I do not know if > it is possible. my $0.02 is that ftp.XX is really ftp0 and ftp1. and ftp2 onwards is a different machine. in part because if we ever do hierarchies then we can say ftpX where X > 0 in ftpX.xx hierarchy, syncs from ftp0. which might be considered to be a different interface to ftp1 (even if on the same machine), e.g ftp-master.xx == ftp0.xx sorry - it's a bit long winded but the short version is maybe to get a bunch of hostmasters to create ftp/ftp0/ftp1 to point at the primary and then ftp2 onwards. the namespaces probably needs regular trawling anyway - when i semi regularly go through ftpX.au, about 30% of them drop out or become out of date over a 6-12 month period with no notice :-( regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message