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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

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