From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 9: 8:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F8514E0E for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09255; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:08:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200001221708.KAA09255@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: from John Polstra at "Jan 21, 0 10:43:39 am" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:08:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, John Polstra wrote: > In fact, the higher-numbered mirrors often have faster hardware simply > because they're newer. Also, in particular, there's nothing special > about cvsup.FreeBSD.org -- it's simply an alias for cvsup1 and it gets > its updates the same way at the same intervals from the same master > server as all the other mirrors. Perhaps we should be so bold as to renumber the servers in the DNS such that the preferred servers have the lower numbers? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message