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From: Boyd Faulkner <faulkner@asgard.bga.com>
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Subject: Re: sup is broken?
To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:25:26 -0559 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199602052348.PAA03904@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Feb 5, 96 03:48:38 pm
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According to David Greenman:
> 
> >make it so..
> 
>    Not until someone goes and verifies that all of the sup*.freebsd.org
> targets are working correctly. Also, my experiance with multiple A records
> is that it always comes up with them same one (not random).
> 
> -DG

And hopefully, there will be some guarantee that they will update at the
same time.  I would hate to sup once, change servers and actually go
backwards because the new server was behind the old one.

Boyd

> 
> >> 
> >> Has anyone thought of not calling it sup.freebsd.org any more?  Call it 
> >> sup-master.freebsd.org, instead, and give sup.freebsd.org 3 A records, those 
> >> of sup1, sup2, and sup3.  That way, if someone doesn't know what they are 
> >> doing, they will get a random one of sup1, sup2 or sup3; if they know what 
> >> they are doing they will use sup[123] directly, and it would be really hard to 
> >> hit freefall by accident.
> >> 


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        Boyd Faulkner            "The fates lead him who will;
   faulkner@asgard.bga.com       Him who won't, they drag."
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