From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 18:20:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8831715696 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id SAA24103; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:14 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA27992; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:14 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id SAA17480; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:18:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388914E4.B508D919@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:36 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly References: <200001212346.PAA22521@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > My only point is that the first response to a problem isn't to necessarily > > > pull out emacs and start hacking away on code. > > > > Yea, it is easier to do in a regular zone file then to implement the > > network measurement logic into cvsup. > > Yes, it is a rather cool idea to rotate on the cvs servers without > respect to latency, work load or rate of service response from > the server. Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if I am the only one here who thinks blind round-robin DNS is a bad hack. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message