From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 14:10:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00B5155C9 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:10:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 899F63E3D; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:10:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:10:50 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver To: Andre Oppermann Cc: Garance A Drosihn , John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <20000121231050.A14324@skriver.dk> References: <3888D870.2416BFE8@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3888D870.2416BFE8@pipeline.ch>; from oppermann@pipeline.ch on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:06:40PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:06:40PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > At 10:43 AM -0800 1/21/00, John Polstra wrote: > > >This is another in my series of occasional nags to try to get people > > >to use some of the less heavily loaded CVSup mirrors. In the US > > >alone, we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org. > > >The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacity and well-connected site, > > >yet hardly anybody is using it. Please give it a try! > > > > Maybe you should make cvsup.freebsd.org as a rotary (of sorts), > > which returns a different IP address based on the callers IP > > address. (or is that even possible?) That way, any given > > host will always try the same cvsup server, but you'll be > > spreading the load out among the servers. > > Thats not so easy. What about this: > > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup1.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup2.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup3.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup4.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup5.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup6.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup7.freebsd.org. > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup8.freebsd.org. > > If you simply put "cvsup.freebsd.org" into your supfile you'll get > randomly one of them. This should spread the load fairly well. If > you want a special one then simply put "cvsupX.freebsd.org" into > you supfile. > > Aint that easy? > > I don't see any appearant reson (short of network connectivity) that > one *needs* to get always the *same* server. This has been discussed regulary ... You will risk hitting 2 different server in 2 rapid cvsup run's, where the first may be more up to date than the next, as Jordan wrote earlier in this thread ... /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE# 5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message