From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 16:46:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBED914E4A; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA93427; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:58:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:58:50 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: "David O'Brien" Cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: <20000121154014.B43755@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > Possibly, being ping'able should be be a requirement to being a CVSup > mirror. I don't think it makes sense to try to dictate network policy to people who are doing the FreeBSD Project a favor. Anyway, an application-level round-trip time measurement would probably be more accurate, because some routers treat ICMP and TCP packets differently. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message