From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 20:52:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E1937B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:52:49 -0800 (PST) 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 UAA05005; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAI4qdQ61639; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:52:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011180452.eAI4qdQ61639@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: mike@sentex.net Subject: Re: New US CVSup mirrors In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20001117161609.00ac0250@marble.sentex.ca> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20001117161609.00ac0250@marble.sentex.ca> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <5.0.1.4.0.20001117161609.00ac0250@marble.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Super. I know this has come up before, but what if you also added a few > overloaded A records for those who want to spread the load automatically, > and do it in a somewhat random way. So in addition to all the current A > records, what if you added > > cvsuprandom IN A 198.182.76.7 > cvsuprandom IN A 209.221.148.132 > > and so on... And you could suggest people to use this if they dont care > which cvsup server they want ? I suppose it would be OK if it were elective and not required. It has a lot of potential problems. First, different mirrors sync to the master server at different times. If you update twice in rapid succession from different servers, the second update might actually back you up to an earlier version than the first one. Even worse, if something went wrong at one of the mirrors in the rotation such that it was far out of date, it could revert your sources by a lot. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message