Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:49:32 -0300 From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.us.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20010913164932.G6701@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <20010913104413.A68770@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:44:13AM %2B0200 References: <20010912172542.B12042@hub.freebsd.org> <20010913104413.A68770@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Hi,
Somebody told me that Daniel Lang said:
> David O'Brien wrote on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:25:42PM -0700:
> > Since ftp.freebsd.org is not longer in the US, can we please have a
> > ftp.us and ftp2.us, etc aliases?
>
> Hmm, by thinking a bit further, it could make sense,
> to move all US sites under a us.freebsd.org domain, and select
> the "master" sites without cc-subdomain from within the
> most capable sites, all over the world ?
May I also sugest that we create ftp1.XX.freebsd.org, and that
ftp.XX.freebsd.org is just a round robin for all country's sites?
A very good idea would be to include some kind of proximity
detector in sysinstall, and select only a country or the top level. A
simple ping RTT measurement would probably suffice.
Just my two cents.
Jonny
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João Carlos Mendes Luís jonny@jonny.eng.br
Networking Engineer jcml@ieee.org
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