Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:26:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951124142529.5896B-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199511241855.LAA10049@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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.
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