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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2003 10:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        neuhauser@bellavista.cz
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Periodic email about security notifications
Message-ID:  <200305051732.h45HVwM7025745@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030505172704.GY12792@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On  5 May, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # kirk@strauser.com / 2003-05-05 10:04:39 -0500:
>> At 2003-05-05T14:18:11Z, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:

>> Actually, I had an idea:
>> 
>> Debian makes "ftp.us.debian.org" a round-robin pointer to any of a number of
>> machines.  What about doing the same for FreeBSD, and making scripts replace
>> references to "ftp.freebsd.org" with "ftpmirror.freebsd.org" or similar?
>> Then, those with specific needs could still download from ftp.freebsd.org,
>> but everyone else would automatically get a mirror site.
> 
>     wouldn't just giving 1< IP addresses for ftp.freebsd.org have the
>     same effect?

This can provide hours of entertainment if the mirrors get out of sync.



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