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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:56:01 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511241855.LAA10049@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 24, 95 11:55:18 am
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> 
> > > > 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.

Keep a list, sort it and move down it in order?  Then you get the fastest 
available.

Boyd

> 
> 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.
> 


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