From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Sep 13 16:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F341237B408 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f8DNAE310134; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:10:14 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:10:14 -0300 To: jason andrade Cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.us.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20010913201013.A10095@roma.coe.ufrj.br> References: <20010913164932.G6701@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@dstc.edu.au on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:01:08AM +1000 X-Quote: What are you looking for in my mail headers ? X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-URL: http://www.jonny.eng.br 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 Somebody told me that jason andrade said: > 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. In this case, I would let the country's hostmaster verify the sites and decide which ftp sites are tier 1. The only effective change would be to add ftp1.XX to the sysisntall site list. If the hostmaster decides not to use round robin, just point ftp.XX to ftp1.XX or anyone else. Note that I did not say that every site in the country would be automatically added to ftp.XX.FreeBSD.org. And the definition of "close tier 1" would be easier with the proximity algoritm I described earlier. How many FreeBSD users really know which site is closer to them? How to check this before installing FreeBSD? I know how to, but definitely, most users don't. Jonny -- João Carlos Mendes Luís jonny@jonny.eng.br Networking Engineer jcml@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message