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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:51:21 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org?
Message-ID:  <20101021115121.282ecadb@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101021083124.GA50114@megatron.madpilot.net>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:24 +0200
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:


> I have noticed on the machines I use/administer a bias towards
> portsnap5.
> 
> I mean, all these machines are always choosing mirror number five.
> 
> Some are behind squid proxies and using them for portsnap, so I think
> this can be expected and caused in some way by some cached data, but
> some are connecting directly.
> 
> Is this in some way expected?

If you define a cache environment variable the random choice is seeded
by that to improve the caching. There may also be some weighting in the
SRV record.



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