From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 11:27:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA15023 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:27:26 -0800 Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA15013 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:27:11 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id OAA06986; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:26:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:26:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Terry Lambert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall In-Reply-To: <199511241855.LAA10049@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > 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. > > The other thing would be the time it woudl take to do the connect to each site (consider that I'm on a 14.4 connection right now, not a T1 or ISDN), then to do the handshaking to find out if it was a *good* site, but then try all the others to find out if there is a better one...how many "other sites" are there now? Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.