Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:16:49 -0500 (EST) From: Basket Case <jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmmmm. Are all the sup servers now online? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951215141540.10564A-100000@technix.org> In-Reply-To: <4272.819052167@time.cdrom.com>
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I can offer my computer to run as either sup4/5/6 -- I'm on a t1 line and will be on the net until May before I graduate. Let me know if you are interested in temporary sites... If so then I'll go ahead and set something up. Right now I have 32 megs of ram (perhaps I will upgrade to 64 soon), p5-100, 3c590, etc... Jon On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > So far we have: > > sup.freebsd.org -> freefall (soon to be somewhat more limited > in the number of connections supported) > > sup2.freebsd.org -> insecurity.shockwave.com (between > 10 and 20 connections allowed, I think) > > sup3.freebsd.org -> lucus.fsl.orst.edu (between > 10 and 20 connections allowed, I think) > > I also believe that nic.funet.fi provides sup access, but we haven't > had anyone volunteer to be a DNS secondary for Finland yet so it's not > yet registered under sup.fi.freebsd.org, as it eventually should be. > > I've also been thinking about this a little and wondering if we > shouldn't *also* map servers into freebsd.org regardless of location? > That we could rank them also by degrees of connectivity, e.g.: > > sup.freebsd.org (as shown) > sup2.freebsd.org (as shown) > sup3.freebsd.org (as shown) > sup4.freebsd.org (TBA) > sup5.freebsd.org (TBA) > sup6.freebsd.org (TBA) > sup7.freebsd.org -> sup.fi.freebsd.org (these > sup8.freebsd.org -> sup.de.freebsd.org don't > sup9.freebsd.org -> sup.uk.freebsd.org exist > sup10.freebsd.org -> sup2.uk.freebsd.org yet) > > And so on.. The same would hold true for `ftp' and `www', of course. > > My major objective here is to make it as dead-simple for the end user > as possible. If they can't get a connection to the first server site > they try, they can just bump the number up and try again. A > no-brainer. Back when the Internet used to work, restricting things > by region made sense. Now you're just as likely to be able to get > from New York to Finland as you are from New York to San Francisco! :-( > > You'd also be amazed at the number of people who've sent me mail > asking for the MIRROR.SITES file - I say "it's on ftp.freebsd.org" and > they say BUT WE CAN'T GET ON TO FTP.FREEBSD.ORG, DARN IT! They I say > "it's on the boot floppy" and they say (repeat). I guess there's no > excuse for not looking on http://www.freebsd.org, but some folks are > impatient. > > In any case, whether we do this or not, I'm still waiting to > accumulate the 6 "official sup sites" I promised David before > announcing the opening of the CVS tree to general access. Any > volunteers for sup4, sup5 and sup6? Please? > > Thanks! > > Jordan > Jon =--------------------------------Basket Case----------------------------------= = E-Mail: jon@technix.org - Computer Science - C/C++/Pascal/Basic/ASM = = WWW: http://www.technix.org - Systems Administrator - FreeBSD 2.1.0 SNAP = =-----------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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