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Date:      Sun, 4 May 2003 20:19:55 -0400
From:      Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Periodic email about security notifications
Message-ID:  <20030505001955.GB92114@opiate.soulwax.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030504235059.GB42024@isnic.is>
References:  <20030504100447.GU12792@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200305042336.h44NaoM7023683@gw.catspoiler.org> <20030504235059.GB42024@isnic.is>

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On 2003-05-04 23:50 +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2003, Don Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Also, this proposal won't scale very well.  Think about what happens
> > when the zillions of machines in each time zone all attempt to contact
> > the ftp server at the same time.
> 
> It could be configurable to use a mirror.
> 

You're still going to have a crapload of people who will just stick
ftp.freebsd.org in there. I think Don's got the right idea...(it's still
cool functionality).

-- 
Munish Chopra



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