From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 21 14:24:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798C616A40A; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E29743D45; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:24:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from john-mather.demon.co.uk ([83.105.88.4] helo=[10.0.0.3]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1FWwYY-000Jfy-Bx; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:24:23 +0000 From: Paul Mather To: Benjamin Lutz In-Reply-To: <200604211440.28535.benlutz@datacomm.ch> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> <44456BC2.1050102@freebsd.org> <200604211440.28535.benlutz@datacomm.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:24:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1145629460.3188.27.camel@dell8600.dlib.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:24:24 -0000 On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:40 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 00:44, Colin Percival wrote: > > I have a list of people who have offered mirrors, but so far I haven't > > seen any need for additional mirrors -- the two which already exist are > > showing no signs of slowing down. > > Hm, but I see a quite noticeable speed difference between portsnap1 and > portsnap2. The second one is quite a bit faster. I notice that on 4.x portsnap never finds any mirrors because the grep of the output returned by "host -t srv ..." is not appropriate for 4.x's version of /usr/bin/host, which produces output different to that of 5.x onwards (a BIND8 vs BIND9 issue, I guess). So, maybe because of this, all of the portsnaps running on 4.x machines are hitting the same server each time instead of randomly choosing a mirror, thereby causing that mirror to be a bit more loaded? Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa