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To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly 
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From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net>
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 Robin Melville wrote:
>At 10:43 am -0800 21/1/00, John Polstra wrote:
>>[...] we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org.
>>The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacity and well-connected site,
>>yet hardly anybody is using it.  Please give it a try!
>
>Hi
>
>Might it be worth load sharing these via duplicate dns entries for 
>cvsup.freebsd.org, so that callers get one at random?

due to dns caching and the totaly arbitrary nature of this method, it
almost never does what you expect it to.  

damon


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