From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 2:40:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.patho.gen.nz (tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C214A14C92 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@tardis.patho.gen.nz) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by tardis.patho.gen.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA22814; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:39:29 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:39:29 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: Ben Rosengart Cc: Andre Oppermann , sthaug@nethelp.no, louie@TransSys.COM, drosih@rpi.edu, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <20000122233927.B2555@patho.gen.nz> References: <3888E597.9D80E8EF@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ben@skunk.org on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:20:38PM -0500 X-Files: the Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:20:38PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do: > > > > cvsup IN A 198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org > > cvsup IN A 205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org > > ... and so on > > > > This is legal, is it? > > Not only is it legal, but I believe BIND will return all the A records > to any query, and will rotate them. The problem with this is that any time a cvsup server operator decides to renumber their mirror, they need to inform the soa for freebsd.org (and factor in the freebsd.org TTLs to manage the change). In practice this will not work, and will cause 1/n cvsup attempts to fail after a machine has been renumbered until TTLs expire. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message