From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 16:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBBE14FB2; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12787; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:33:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma012763; Wed, 19 Jan 00 11:32:55 +1100 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA29452; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:33:05 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:33:04 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-Sender: carl@newton.aipo.gov.au To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Fetching packages due to network topology is another idea I've wanted to > implement for a while, although I was thinking of doing it dynamically by > testing the available bandwidth to each of the hosts (and storing it in a > database) and using them in order of increasing bandwidth. You also need to cater for those of us behind restrictive firewalls that keep our own copies of the packages distribution. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message