From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu May 3 11:22:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC07C37B43C for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f43IKj075057; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:20:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Jon Dugan Cc: Peter Wemm , , Tony Rimovsky Subject: Re: ftp-master method In-Reply-To: <20010503111418.A11797@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At this rate, we are going to nail the magic number of 8 primary first-tier mirrors for the ftp.freebsd.org round-robin. After that the load gets weird with some machines getting more load than others. It would probably be beneficial to use ultra-dns or some other closest hop first technology. Has anyone taken a look at it? or did I just volunteer myself? =) -gordon On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jon Dugan wrote: > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:14:18 -0500 > From: Jon Dugan > To: Peter Wemm > Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, Tony Rimovsky > Subject: Re: ftp-master method > > I have been mirroring from ftp3 via rsync anononymously for a few weeks now. > > I have received my boss's approval to go ahead and become an official > mirror. I haven't turned on anonymous ftp yet, but I'm going to be doing > that just after I send this mail. I am also up for running an rsync server > to allow downstream mirrors and anonymous rsync access. > > I'm willing to dedicate the time and energy to making sure this system is > highly available. We use FreeBSD extensively in the networking group here, > and this is one of they ways we can give something back to the project. > > Our connectivity is as follows: > > OC12 to Abilene > OC12 to vBNS+ > OC3 to the AADS (Chicago) NAP (peering with several providers there) > DS3 to Verio > > Our connectivity is a bit skewed towards the research and education > community, but we have plenty of bandwidth to the commodity internet. > > Could you add reflection.ncsa.uiuc.edu to the mirror access list? > > How do I go about being listed as an official mirror? Do I just need to > send mail to hostmaster@FreeBSD.org and request the next available ftp DNS > record? > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:24:18PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Will Andrews wrote: > > > > > > > OK, so people have problems with either mirror/spegla+ftp and rsync. > > > > How about cvsup? It uses the rsync algorithm with some optimizations, > > > > and can be configured to have a maximum number of deletions, and has > > > > several methods of excluding files. It also requires little memory, > > > > although it does hurt when it comes to cpu. And I'll bet it's a bit > > > > faster than rsync, to put it mildly. > > > > > > I think we're just about ready to go, at least for the rsync clients. > > > > Some things I forgot to mention.. I'm using the same access list that > > ftp.freesoftware.com had for the mirror class. If you were mirroring > > anonymously, you will need to get in touch. > > > > Cheers, > > -Peter > > -- > > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > > -- > Jon Dugan | Senior Network Engineer, NCSA Network Development > jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 57C CAB, 605 E Springfield, Champaign, IL 61820 > 217/244-7715 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/people/jdugan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message