Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:50:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images Message-ID: <200301302050.h0UKoHUD089619@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3E2E58E8.7020903@btc.adaptec.com> <20030122191836.GC12075@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3E2EF005.9010107@btc.adaptec.com> <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk>
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: :[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
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