Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:01:28 +0000 From: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: The 4.4 FTP Release Message-ID: <20010919220128.F1469@isnic.is>
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Hi,
I know I'm a new guy into this list but I'm still going to send in my comments.
I beleive that the release of FreeBSD on ftp could be done in a much better and
more efficient way than being done today.
1. I find it strange that the announcement of the new version was sent out
before even ftp.freebsd.org was up-to-date.
2. It is also strange that mirrors were allowed to start mirroring from
ftp-master before the maintainers finished uploading to the machine,
making the mirrors in some instances download hundreds of MB again when
it was decided to change the setup of the ISO-IMAGES dir.
3. To my knowledge there were only 3 sites today (13:00 GMT) that had all of
4.4 i386 iso images on their ftp server, ftp2.freebsd.org, ftp5.freebsd.org
and ftp.rhnet.is, but ftp.freebsd.org didn't have all.
4. The ftp.freebsd.org should ofcourse be some kind of a round-robin setup of
full-mirrors.
I would like to volunteer for a group wich had the task of redesigning the
ftp-release procedure and the setup of ftp.freebsd.org aliases.
One idea I have is leaving the complete freebsd.org zone as-is and then adding
NS records for ftp.freebsd.org wich point to a set of servers running some
kind of software directing users to a site geographically closer.
This could be done in many ways, it could learn AS paths, or at the bare minimum
check out the TLD of the user and send him to ftp.TLD.freebsd.org or if not
available send the user to the ftp.TLD.freebsd.org server closest to his
country.
Oli
P.S. I don't have access to ftp-master.freebsd.org yet, but if someone reading
this can make that happen for me it would be much appreciated.
(ftp.rhnet.is, (Real: draupnir.rhnet.is), rsync or cvsup)
--
Olafur Osvaldsson
Systems Administrator
Internet Iceland inc.
Tel: +354 525-5291
Email: oli@isnic.is
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