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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:13:54 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
Cc:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The 4.4 FTP Release
Message-ID:  <20010920111354.C86655@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010919220128.F1469@isnic.is>; from oli@isnic.is on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:01:28PM %2B0000
References:  <20010919220128.F1469@isnic.is>

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:01:28PM +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:

> 2.  It is also strange that mirrors were allowed to start mirroring from
>     ftp-master before the maintainers finished uploading to the machine,
>     making the mirrors in some instances download hundreds of MB again when
>     it was decided to change the setup of the ISO-IMAGES dir.

That was a mistake - but we're all humans.

> 3.  To my knowledge there were only 3 sites today (13:00 GMT) that had all of
>     4.4 i386 iso images on their ftp server, ftp2.freebsd.org, ftp5.freebsd.org
>     and ftp.rhnet.is, but ftp.freebsd.org didn't have all.

The box was overloaded, and had to be taken down for a memory
upgrade, that killed a long running rsync run.

> 4.  The ftp.freebsd.org should ofcourse be some kind of a round-robin setup of
>     full-mirrors.

That would be ideal ...

> I would like to volunteer for a group wich had the task of redesigning the
> ftp-release procedure and the setup of ftp.freebsd.org aliases.
> 
> One idea I have is leaving the complete freebsd.org zone as-is and then adding
> NS records for ftp.freebsd.org wich point to a set of servers running some
> kind of software directing users to a site geographically closer.
> This could be done in many ways, it could learn AS paths, or at the bare minimum
> check out the TLD of the user and send him to ftp.TLD.freebsd.org or if not
> available send the user to the ftp.TLD.freebsd.org server closest to his
> country.

When the former ftp.FreeBSD.org when down (and we setup the current one)
- Peter Wemm talked about getting Akamai DNS for ftp.FreeBSD.org - I
don't know if he got any resolution to that.

If now we could try do work something out ourself - but if we can get
the Akamai DNS sponsored, it would be ideal, as that works really good.

/Jesper

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