From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 16:43:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3291065672 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:43:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DC08FC12 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn41 with SMTP id 41so2710908iwn.13 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:43:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Kb8apxfN2l30oMZr7f1qBLQN63HC8/EAzMKE+3KefxU=; b=HOHKnciGbCf5WdzogM0JbGMVVjSklij9O3pg+wuFbSfETjgOrKS76s40Jfl9UiESXF JpTYFRYHr/0M6QCFmkZywZ1vceTFJRq/1WD8HG2UPxRNobun8v21Mb8paThOiV5PfMu8 2fB4JAbhCY0qLOvFMz+pBfQD53qQSYVDtj93I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=ZM8kvpD5Nxv9PUaAt6ngwu1EYkv2bYdzUBoQ3jKIL8Y+KgagnfQiJegauGII0raRh5 xVjYk+L+tTXjnE7irezWLkv7nY3vXXfDJ11C/rO2LITMO557pTTOA/oUr2bwVFgqI9uD 0Ff5oegn3YFjhFu2aiLQVxiCATPWLJs/Hw44g= Received: by 10.231.10.134 with SMTP id p6mr1174802ibp.50.1287677865499; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:17:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.192.2 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101021115121.282ecadb@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <19264903.2523091287604404630.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> <20101020200247.GA60489@icarus.home.lan> <20101021083124.GA50114@megatron.madpilot.net> <20101021115121.282ecadb@gumby.homeunix.com> From: Royce Williams Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:17:25 -0800 Message-ID: To: ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:43:07 -0000 On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:51 AM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:24 +0200 Guido Falsi wrote: > >> I have noticed on the machines I use/administer a bias towards >> portsnap5. > 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. Yep - update5 is currently weighted 50% in the SRV: $ host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.FreeBSD.org. _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.FreeBSD.org. _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.FreeBSD.org. _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update2.FreeBSD.org. Royce