From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 18:14:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9EB106566B for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from megatron.madpilot.net (megatron.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4DA8FC15 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from megatron.madpilot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megatron.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE85A1BCF for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:14:02 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=madpilot.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :references:subject:subject:mime-version:user-agent:from:from :date:date:message-id:received:received; s=mail; t=1287684831; x=1289499231; bh=pe8KPfQaJ6hpI0k5BhE2oq3pVcc9Snnxik/f+fYrYis=; b= r1hIeLfv7w9fbleXxZ4GYziqHR9rky3PZWvEGoerraTrZT407CB5qOmNZGNt7Qcb yoqrg/6o+L20etzcaBzbykkeuak4yoIw2sI27g5p53Vb55TsoJt19GK3702aGWnp fPgSJe1v3cAPcc1OfIb3bRHQGSe61YJ3SdIzLLz6uQ4= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at madpilot.net Received: from megatron.madpilot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by megatron.madpilot.net (megatron.madpilot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pm-rrGN6QWPx for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marvin.madpilot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megatron.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CC082DF.2080203@madpilot.net> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:51 +0200 From: Guido Falsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101020 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <19264903.2523091287604404630.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> <20101020200247.GA60489@icarus.home.lan> <20101021083124.GA50114@megatron.madpilot.net> <20101021115121.282ecadb@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:14:06 -0000 On 10/21/10 18:17, Royce Williams wrote: > 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. > Thank you. This explains what I was seeing and makes it in fact quite normal. -- Guido Falsi