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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 00:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   load distribution
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105100048490.5401-100000@impatience.valueclick.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105031118430.67655-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>

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On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> At this rate, we are going to nail the magic number of 8 primary
> first-tier mirrors for the ftp.freebsd.org round-robin. After that
> the load gets weird with some machines getting more load than
> others. It would probably be beneficial to use ultra-dns or some
> other closest hop first technology. Has anyone taken a look at it?
> or did I just volunteer myself?

For ftp.perl.org (and ftp-dist.apache.org, but that's not announced
yet or well populated with mirrors) I've made a name server that sends
you to one of the mirrors in your country[1], or failing that on the
same continent as you.

If I in some automated way can get a list of mirrors with their
country and (optionally) a weighting it's very easy to add support for
ftp.freebsd.org.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dinamed/


 - ask

[1] or well, obviously it only knows about the ip address of your
    nameserver, but chances are good that they are in the same
    country.

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