Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:10 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Subject: Re: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images Message-ID: <20030130231110.GB44606@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <3E2E58E8.7020903@btc.adaptec.com> <20030122191836.GC12075@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3E2EF005.9010107@btc.adaptec.com> <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk>
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[developers removed from CC] On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:59:48PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > Please re-read my message. Our mirror network is a donated resource. > > We can't go dictating to them that they need to buy more storage and > > wider pipes in order to continue the 'priviledge' of mirroring for us. > > They are the ones doing the favor for us, we are not doing them any > > favors. We show our appreciation for their donation by being > > considerate to their needs. > > > > It seems to me that the time may have come for a vertical splitting of > the DNS name space in favour of sites that want to mirror only certain > architectures. In envisage ftp.alpha.uk.FreeBSD.org, or > ftp.ia64.uk.FreeBSD.org. Of course the DNS could be set up as: > > ftp.alpha.uk.FreeBSD.org CNAME ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org > ftp.ia64.uk.FreeBSD.org CNAME ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org > > or other permutations. Good thinking! I'm hardly in the position to rate it as I'm "just" developing, but it did have an immediate liking to it... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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