Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:47:12 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads... Message-ID: <20030210054712.GW15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> In-Reply-To: <20030209213619.I866@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030209213619.I866@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
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> > I've got a few ideas for randomizing load for a given geographic > > region (Europe, Asia, Affrica, and the US being the 4 biggies: > > I'd like to steal part of your thread for an idea that I've been > kicking around. I think it would be useful to allow a user to > specify something like PORTS_DOWNLOAD_REGION in /etc/make.conf, and > have bsd.sites.mk make reasonable decisions about which set of > servers to use first based on that. I think your choices of regions > is a good one. The code to do this is pretty easy to conceive, but > if you need a proof of concept let me know. Actually, I was going to do one better by having fetch(1) hit a CGI script that would do a GeoIP look up and would return a list of nearby mirrors. This'd give the FreeBSD project some kind idea for what our userbase is and what's getting installed where (prioritizing the importance of ports based off of # of downloads). -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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