Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:56:01 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: scrappy@hub.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <9511242056.AA08284@olympus> 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. > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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