From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 8 09:25:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20602 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20588 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA12717; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:24:51 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199512081724.LAA12717@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for .freebsd.org To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:24:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512081509.HAA28341@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 8, 95 07:09:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I propose that we deal with all or most of these problems at the same > time by creating secondary name servers for each major subdomain. > We've already done this for .au (Australia), .br (Brazil), .fr (France) > and .it (Italy). We should at least try to get all the countries who > currently have servers in MIRROR.SITES represented by their own domains > so that we can unify the ftp namespace in the same way that Netscape has - > e.g. the Japanese sites (for example) would become ftp.jp.freebsd.org, > ftp1.jp.freebsd.org, and so on. This makes them both trivial to remember > and to cycle through when you're looking for a server with some slots free > in your country of origin. Why not do it by state (or maybe timezone) for US sites? i.e. have a "ftp1.wi.freebsd.org" for an ftp site in Wisconsin, or something like that... Another idea we were tossing around at work yesterday might be a way to have the install floppy send "test" pings to various ftp servers, to see which might be fastest (closest? ala traceroute?) automatically, and recommend a good ftp server on that basis. Credit (partially): Scott Bolte... ... JG