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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall
To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 16:00:25 -0700 (MST)
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> > 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.

I think maybe you could have installed from a slightly slower but available
server by the time you get all the information together.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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