Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:49:39 +1100 From: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New US CVSup mirrors Message-ID: <00111819493901.09278@shalimar.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200011180525.eAI5Pkb61768@vashon.polstra.com> References: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKAEJDLPAA.davids@webmaster.com> <200011180525.eAI5Pkb61768@vashon.polstra.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Saturday 18 November 2000 16:25, John Polstra wrote: > In article <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKAEJDLPAA.davids@webmaster.com>, David > Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote: > > > These problems could be solved if: > > > > 1) People who used the random server understood that they > > couldn't 'cvsup' more than once in rapid succession. > > > > 2) The list of available servers were reasonably well > > maintained so that busy or stale servers were removed from it in a > > timely manner. > > I can tell you from direct experience that #2 is for all practical > purposes impossible to achieve. First I'd have to find out about a > server having problems. Then the DNS-meister would have to see my > mail and do something about it. Then the updated DNS records would > have to trickle into everybody's caches. > > Maintaining lists of constantly changing things is Just Hard. > Maintaining co ordinated lists certainly is, but couldn't you make a small mod to the CVSsup server such that when over loaded, it requested from FreeBSD.org, the name of a (nearby?) server that had been updated beyond the rwquesting client and redirect the session to that server? Surely it wouldn't be to hard to have the mirroring software report back up the chain. Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Mb1sjy1XdZnxbGdZz0tBnQO+jCNBQZdB iQA/AwUBOhZCo/h4xz7LU/evEQJhUwCeISUd6skI5GWmaaVHK+ApOdjnGZQAni6s lCM/CsO6Exn3gA8zfJ59k9NL =bO43 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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