From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 5 01:56:37 2009 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 34599106568D for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:56:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from renguoqin@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18C28FC08 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so838806qwi.7 for ; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:56:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=s9NF2TTD52D1DxMDfDU+83qdlY9YYSmrkGnO8l+14I4=; b=HnFOTFgaOxtR2xffj/QV5zHhBafk+nuo/qaj2N+LgG0qmPh2K+HkBLm3WzgScccTt1 0lRSCWypjPNNeO8/7kALPGwAfwp/rLMkkq9Bd3l0hoqB+xtBMzqrX61o6HaGT1QKFQxN v17poJpwWwP3o/Hl4PyZy3r/n2MndZHCCkM/w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eBIrlWB/h/61rG0dE0Ne4RQTfEejUeNeLdHXQM4oEKZpWKvuDoSoXw6uVB3QAOtaw8 FmmRthrhJXuum7oDXx0EWHuM3cW6aey54lKIpVrPNUZ0jLnRHb+ep+Yi71v3rwCiftKN l9e5BFEZW+6D+CVsMGu/gjcsLd9rmNW6NVygU= Received: by 10.224.4.131 with SMTP id 3mr2778363qar.141.1254706242544; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? (c-76-118-159-130.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [76.118.159.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm917897qwg.13.2009.10.04.18.30.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AC94C27.6040305@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:30:15 -0400 From: Guoqin Ren User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: random fetch location 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: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:56:37 -0000 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