From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 2 17:49:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F7114DE1; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06296; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA33415; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:48:35 -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: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: current@freebsd.org Subject: New CVSup mirror sites Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We've added quite a few new CVSup mirror sites this year. I thought it might be a good idea to list them, in the hope that some of you would help spread the load by switching to them for your CVSup updates. One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7 of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same master site. (So do most of the non-US mirrors.) The only reasons to choose one over another are (1) to get a good network route to the mirror, and (2) to get a lightly-loaded mirror. In the US, cvsup[1-3] are very busy; clients get turned away from them on a regular basis because they are already at their limit. The other 4 mirrors are practically idle in comparison. These are all screaming fast, well-connected, well-maintained mirrors. Give them a try if you haven't already! As far as I can reconstruct from the revision history of the FreeBSD Handbook, these are the mirrors that have been added since the beginning of 1999: Brazil cvsup2.br.FreeBSD.org cvsup3.br.FreeBSD.org China cvsup.cn.FreeBSD.org Czech Republic cvsup.cz.FreeBSD.org Finland cvsup2.fi.FreeBSD.org France cvsup.fr.FreeBSD.org Korea cvsup.kr.FreeBSD.org Netherlands cvsup2.nl.FreeBSD.org Russia cvsup2.ru.FreeBSD.org Spain cvsup.es.FreeBSD.org Taiwan cvsup2.tw.FreeBSD.org cvsup3.tw.FreeBSD.org United Kingdom cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org USA cvsup4.FreeBSD.org cvsup6.FreeBSD.org cvsup7.FreeBSD.org --- John Polstra CVSup Mirrormeister PS - Please don't start that "Why don't we use round-robin DNS?" discussion again. There are technical reasons why it isn't feasible currently. Maybe someday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message