From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Sep 13 15: 1:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A639E37B414 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8DM13b22307; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:01:03 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:01:08 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.us.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010913164932.G6701@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > 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? this might work for some places, but overall it would not be a good idea - ftp.XX.freebsd.org should always be the `primary' (a tier-1 if possible) for the country (aka ftp1.XX.freebsd.org). if possible the other ftpX.XX.freebsd.org sites should try and (in order of preference) mirror from ftp1, a close tier-1, a close tier-2. in most countries, all the freebsd mirrors are NOT identical and in fact some have very different structures. if you round robin you might find installations/end users have very different paths or content to deal with every time. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message