From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Sep 13 15:42: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from bigfatpipe.net (silicone.bigfatpipe.net [128.241.64.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8695F37B40F for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cra (helo=localhost) by bigfatpipe.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15hfCv-000M1l-00; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:43:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]" To: jason andrade Cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , Subject: Re: ftp.us.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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. Suggestions: ftp#.freebsd.org Tier-I, Primary sites, etc. These would be CNAME or duplicate A records for a Tier-II name. ftp#.cc.freebsd.org Tier-II Secondary sites, sites not carrying the full distribution and collections, etc. Every site could have this style name, regardless of whether they carried the full content. Benefits: -- Easy ability to distinguish between Tier-I-capability sites and other sites. -- Easier ability to change the pointers for Tier-I sites. Ie: ftp4.us.freebsd.org would still be ftp4.us.freebsd.org, but it'd be easy to retarget the ftp4.freebsd.org record to point to ... ftp.hr.freebsd.org as an example. -- Knowing that the ftp#.freebsd.org will be Tier-I with regular updates, those could be listed in the installer for a round-robin style selection as was suggested earlier. Just my $0.02. -CA -- Christopher R. Allen ------------- cra@bigfatpipe.net -- -- "The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our -- -- surroundings." ----------------------- Okakura Kakuzo -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message