From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Jun 29 19:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C788154C1; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA00854; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA05710; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: committers@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: Changes in freefall CVSup access Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The FreeBSD Project has a new machine "cvsup-master.freebsd.org" which is going to take over as the master CVSup server for mirror sites and committers to use. It will work like this: * The repository will remain on freefall. * Freefall will provide CVSup service to cvsup-master only. * CVSup-master will update itself from freefall "very frequently", which we hope will boil down to a maximum lag of 5 minutes or less. * All mirror sites and committers who have been updating from freefall will have to switch to cvsup-master. Freefall won't let you in any more once I've flipped the switch. I plan to do that the weekend of July 10-11. * Access to cvsup-master will be by cvpasswd-style authentication only -- no IP address based access will be enabled. Your existing "$HOME/.cvsup/auth" file will work on cvsup-master. These changes are necessary because freefall just can't handle the load from all the committers and mirror sites any more. There are too many of them, and as a result many mirror sites can't even connect a good proportion of the time. The new server should be able to handle the load much better because (a) it's not doing anything else, and (b) its cvsupd can run in the much more efficient "mirror mode". You should find that your updates from the new server complete much faster. What you need to do: 1. If you have not already upgraded to CVSup-16.0 and sent me your cvpasswd information, you'd better get moving. The switch gets flipped the weekend of July 10-11, and if I don't have your authentication set up by then you won't be able to get CVSup updates from the master site any more. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see my announcements entitled "PLEASE READ: CVSup access to freefall.freebsd.org" which I posted on February 11 and 12 in the -committers and -hubs lists. You can find copies of them here: http://www.freebsd.org/~jdp/cvpasswd/ 2. If you are a mirror site that is using the "cvsup-mirror" port (as all of you should), edit "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/config.sh" and change all occurrances of "freefall" to "cvsup-master". Otherwise, edit your supfile(s) and/or change the "-h" option on your cvsup command line to use "cvsup-master.freebsd.org" instead of freefall. That's it -- simple, eh? The cvsup-master server is up and running now, so don't procrastinate. You can switch to it right away. One final note. As mentioned above, the new server will introduce a slight lag relative to freefall. Sorry, there's nothing we can do about that. The lag is a maximum of 1 hour now, but it can go way down as soon as enough of you switch to the new server. I can't reduce it until that happens, because freefall doesn't have the horsepower to feed it any faster while its also feeding all of you. In practice you'll notice a much smaller lag even at first, because your updates will finish in a matter of minutes rather than the half-hour or so that they often take now for full mirror sites. Thanks for your cooperation! John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message