From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 12:36:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA06387 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:36:14 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA06375 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:35:48 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA03535; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 20:29:49 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199502012029.UAA03535@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@morton.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502010504.VAA04194@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 95 09:04:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 964 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > freefall.cdrom.com. Are there going to be any others? If we're going to > > do backup sup sites, then the time to do it is SOON! > yes. > > How about this scenario: > > ftp a file from freefall > traceroute all of the sites mentioned Ohh, people are going to love us for that :-) > present menu of three closest > A less drastic solution to a not really solvable problem would be to look at the domain name of the user and have some heuristic to pick a site based on that. For the uk that would be fairly trivial as it would be for many other countries. For the US then maybe some local net hierarchy knowledge could be used. It's not that big a deal really. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK