From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 21 17:19:53 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 E400416A400 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8515B43D45 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:19:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.69]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY300KTC1H4JP70@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY3002RJ1H47A60@pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY3006SN1H423J0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:19:51 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <1145629460.3188.27.camel@dell8600.dlib.vt.edu> To: Paul Mather Message-id: <44491437.8040306@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> <44456BC2.1050102@freebsd.org> <200604211440.28535.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <1145629460.3188.27.camel@dell8600.dlib.vt.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: Benjamin Lutz , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 17:19:54 -0000 Paul Mather wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:40 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: >> Hm, but I see a quite noticeable speed difference between portsnap1 and >> portsnap2. The second one is quite a bit faster. I'll look into this over the summer. > 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? They are hitting the same server, but that server is portsnap2 (which is also portsnap.daemonology.net, which is the default server for pre-1.0 versions of portsnap from the ports tree). Given that most systems running portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential loading. Colin Percival