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Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/
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On 30 Jul 2003 at 14:19, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:26:19 -0400, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> said:
> 
> > 5) Will be given a "ftpX.CC.freebsd.org" hostname and will be a candidate
> >    for becoming a "ftpX.freebsd.org" hostname.
> 
> > 3) Will be given a "ftpX.CC.freebsd.org" name.
> 
> I think that this would be more helpful if sites were categorized
> along a different axis: architecture.  It doesn't make sense to
> require every primary mirror site everywhere in the world to carry
> every architecture.  Few people outside of Japan, for example, have
> need of PC98 releases.  Other places may want to cut out Alpha or
> sparc64 bits if those distributions are very infrequently downloaded.

That can be done with additional DNS zones can't it?  Categorize them 
by what they carry.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/