Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:16:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, rkw@dataplex.net, kimc@w8hd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sup is broken? Message-ID: <199602060316.TAA24389@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199602052319.PAA26558@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Feb 5, 96 03:19:20 pm
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> > make it so.. Please do not make it so unless these things are updated in a syncronous maner, otherwise strange results could happen due to sup1 != sup2 != sup3 as far as the state of the collection. It would very likely cause src-base to come from one machine, src-bin from another, and src-eBones from the third. This could be very very evil... > > In message <26947.823390500@time.cdrom.com>you write: > > >That's one option, or as I also told Kim - PLEASE DON'T USE SUP.FREEBSD.ORG > > >TO UPDATE YOURSELF! > > > > Has anyone thought of not calling it sup.freebsd.org any more? Call it > > sup-master.freebsd.org, instead, and give sup.freebsd.org 3 A records, those > > of sup1, sup2, and sup3. That way, if someone doesn't know what they are > > doing, they will get a random one of sup1, sup2 or sup3; if they know what > > they are doing they will use sup[123] directly, and it would be really hard to > > hit freefall by accident. > > > > Bill > > > > > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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