Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:30:15 -0400 From: Guoqin Ren <renguoqin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: random fetch location Message-ID: <4AC94C27.6040305@gmail.com>
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Hi, Maybe it's a naive question. When I install a package from ports, it often needs to fetch some files. But sometimes it takes a long time before finding an available server to fetch. I also notice that it will try the locations/urls one by one, however the order doesn't change (correct me if I'm wrong). So the very first server on the list will get a lot of traffic since everyone will fetch the files from it. Is there any way to let it randomly pick a url from the list to evenly distribute the traffic among all the servers? Cheers, Guoqin Ren
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