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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:51 +0200
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org?
Message-ID:  <4CC082DF.2080203@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBbf8XkR445uj3Ku7vZB8ZHQOQypqL_zngjf7d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/21/10 18:17, Royce Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:51 AM, RW<rwmaillists@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yep - update5 is currently weighted 50% in the SRV:
>
> $ host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.FreeBSD.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.FreeBSD.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.FreeBSD.org.
> _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update2.FreeBSD.org.
>

Thank you. This explains what I was seeing and makes it in fact quite 
normal.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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