From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 9 18:36: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3FD37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from puck.firepipe.net (hill-b-120.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.205.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B1043F75 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:36:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@puck.firepipe.net) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D7B852E3; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:36:03 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads... Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:35:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> In-Reply-To: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> Organization: The FreeBSD Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_TAxR+ZFrODeEN3F"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200302092136.03271.will@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --Boundary-02=_TAxR+ZFrODeEN3F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 --Boundary-02=_TAxR+ZFrODeEN3F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+RxATF47idPgWcsURAoXaAKCDWb7TyShvvR4QTwCftvDdTREAOwCfbHIv 1obIcV2hImP1JbabXZzkVOY= =U6W+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_TAxR+ZFrODeEN3F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message