From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu May 10 1:10:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8557537B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 2456 invoked by uid 1000); 10 May 2001 08:09:51 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:09:50 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Ask Bjoern Hansen Cc: Gordon Tetlow , Peter Wemm , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load distribution Message-ID: <20010510110950.A673@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Ask Bjoern Hansen , Gordon Tetlow , Peter Wemm , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ask@valueclick.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:58:26AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:58:26AM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > At this rate, we are going to nail the magic number of 8 primary > > first-tier mirrors for the ftp.freebsd.org round-robin. After that > > the load gets weird with some machines getting more load than > > others. It would probably be beneficial to use ultra-dns or some > > other closest hop first technology. Has anyone taken a look at it? > > or did I just volunteer myself? > > For ftp.perl.org (and ftp-dist.apache.org, but that's not announced > yet or well populated with mirrors) I've made a name server that sends > you to one of the mirrors in your country[1], or failing that on the > same continent as you. > > If I in some automated way can get a list of mirrors with their > country and (optionally) a weighting it's very easy to add support for > ftp.freebsd.org. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dinamed/ > > > - ask > > [1] or well, obviously it only knows about the ip address of your > nameserver, but chances are good that they are in the same > country. Just for the record (not, repeat NOT, trying to start another of those DJBware flamewars), this can now be easily achieved using djbdns, too. Yes, I know people have strong feelings about DJB's license. Just thought I'd mention this. G'luck, Peter -- Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message