From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jan 30 15:11:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C617437B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C7A43F3F for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UNBAMW078114; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UNBAVL044679; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UNBACg044678; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:11:10 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Cc: Scott Long , Sean Chittenden Subject: Re: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images Message-ID: <20030130231110.GB44606@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <3E2E58E8.7020903@btc.adaptec.com> <20030122191836.GC12075@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3E2EF005.9010107@btc.adaptec.com> <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [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