Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:26:08 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, bv@wjv.com Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <20020109122608.B55918@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <200201082333.g08NXLn49145@jhs.muc.de>; from jhs@jhs.muc.de on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:33:21AM %2B0100 References: <bv@wjv.com> <200201082333.g08NXLn49145@jhs.muc.de>
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++ 09/01/02 00:33 +0100 - Julian Stacey: | Bill Vermillion wrote: | | > > Mirrors should probably be setup on a continental basis, rather | > > than a courtry basis. | > | > Not neccesarily. The backbone I'm on has terabit links to Europe | > and some place in Europe are faater to get to than NA link on | > slower connections such as running only on T1s or T3s. | | Yes, I've been wondering for a year or 2 now when someone might | want to enhance `fetch` to take into account accumulated & current | net heurisitics, to make sensible local decisions about where to | try first to fetch source distfiles/ for the stuff in /usr/ports/ You can always tell it yourself with MASTER_SORT_REGEX, which is documented in /etc/defaults/make.conf. -pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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