Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:55:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <199511241855.LAA10049@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951124042002.3328B-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 24, 95 04:20:59 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > Given that the current sysinstall has a list of FreeBSD mirror sites > > > from where one can do a net install, shouldn't net install be able to > > > pick a site based on net response to do the site sites and load on the > > > target system? > > > > Uh. I can't parse this? > > I think that what he's asking for is that sysinstall pings each > one in the list to automatically find the closest, or at least fastest, > site nearest to him... That's how I parsed it too. The problem with this is that there's no way to know if the site is at or over its user limit after you've pinged. So closest != most available. Some type of extension to FTP to let it tell you how many slots you have open, and then using the time it took to get the response as "ping time" might work. But if you have a lot of these, inetd will assume the ftpd is respawning too rapidly and shut the site down for 10 minutes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199511241855.LAA10049>