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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:35:58 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads...
Message-ID:  <200302092136.03271.will@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com>
References:  <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com>

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 21:19, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> Pending a few more days of review of the updated version of
> random(6) on -audit, I'd like to see about introducing the
> ability to randomize the downloads of distfiles from the
> various master sites.  I think mirror operators who are listed
> in the first three or four sites would love the repreive as
> well, nevermind improving the resiliancy of the system.  Mark
> Murry posted a bit about how to randomize the sites without
> using the updated random(6), so pending any objections, I'll
> likely incorporate his suggestion for OS versions less than
> 500100 or 400800.
>
> I've got a few ideas for randomizing load for a given
> geographic region (Europe, Asia, Affrica, and the US being the
> 4 biggies: bandwidth isn't free, especially when crossing
> continents/oceans) and then allowing for a fallback to a
> randomized set of global mirrors as well, but those'll take
> some time to hash out.

We already have MASTER_SITE_REGEX; you might be able to leverage=20
some of that code.

Regards,
=2D-=20
wca

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