Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:51:21 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org? Message-ID: <20101021115121.282ecadb@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20101021083124.GA50114@megatron.madpilot.net> References: <19264903.2523091287604404630.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> <20101020200247.GA60489@icarus.home.lan> <20101021083124.GA50114@megatron.madpilot.net>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:24 +0200 Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote: > I have noticed on the machines I use/administer a bias towards > portsnap5. > > I mean, all these machines are always choosing mirror number five. > > Some are behind squid proxies and using them for portsnap, so I think > this can be expected and caused in some way by some cached data, but > some are connecting directly. > > Is this in some way expected? If you define a cache environment variable the random choice is seeded by that to improve the caching. There may also be some weighting in the SRV record.
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