Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:50:02 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WARNING: Parallel CVSup sessions are frowned upon! Message-ID: <199802130250.SAA28900@austin.polstra.com>
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One of the CVSup mirror site maintainers has complained to me that a person has been making 5 simultaneous connections to his server, thereby shutting out other innocent users from the system. This is not only incredibly anti-social, it is also kind of dumb. Normally, 5 simultaneous updates won't run significantly faster than 5 sequential ones. So people, don't do this! You know who you are. Whether you manage a single machine or a group of them, please run only one update at a time from the FreeBSD mirrors. If you need to update multiple machines, do them at different times. Or better yet, install the cvsup-mirror port and update just one "master" machine from a FreeBSD mirror. Then update your other machines from the master. Every connection is logged. We have all the information we need to blacklist the offenders if necessary, thereby denying them access to the servers. Please don't force us to take that step. Be sensible and be considerate. Thank you. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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