From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Sep 19 15: 1:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from amun.isnic.is (amun.isnic.is [193.4.58.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693A337B40A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from oli@localhost) by amun.isnic.is (8.11.4/8.11.4/isnic) id f8JM1SP08431 for hubs@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:01:28 GMT (envelope-from oli) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:01:28 +0000 From: Olafur Osvaldsson To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: The 4.4 FTP Release Message-ID: <20010919220128.F1469@isnic.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message