Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load distribution Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105212322110.24623-100000@impatience.valueclick.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105100128230.66879-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: [...] > > If I in some automated way can get a list of mirrors with their > > country and (optionally) a weighting it's very easy to add support for > > ftp.freebsd.org. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dinamed/ > > Actually, I like the supersparrow project better, it pulls info from bgp > tables and goes from there. This approximates even better and you don't > have to figure out what IP block goes where. I'm not exactly sure how well > it works, but it looks kinda cool. yeah, I had a look at it. I didn't have a BGP feed available to test with and the "country / continent" load balancing works reasonably well for international users at least (or much much better than just having everyone go to (www|ftp).cpan.org (which they do)). - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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