From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 15:40:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9539F157C9 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA96296; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA43831; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Polstra Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <20000121154014.B43755@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200001211911.LAA11686@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001211911.LAA11686@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > I have been reminded that a few mirrors (cvsup8 in particular) filter > pings. Don't take ping failures as a certain indication that the > server is down. On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:22:33AM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > So have the cvsup client do the pinging to the server and extract > its current work load or other vital statistic. I have to agree with Amancio. Otherwise how are we to determine if cvsup8 is worth our time? I personally will not be switching to it until I can determine it is a better path for me. Possibly, being ping'able should be be a requirement to being a CVSup mirror. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message