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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:01:08 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp.us.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0109140758240.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010913164932.G6701@roma.coe.ufrj.br>

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:

>     May I also sugest that we create ftp1.XX.freebsd.org, and that
> ftp.XX.freebsd.org is just a round robin for all country's sites?

this might work for some places, but overall it would not be a good
idea - ftp.XX.freebsd.org should always be the `primary' (a tier-1
if possible) for the country (aka ftp1.XX.freebsd.org).  if possible
the other ftpX.XX.freebsd.org sites should try and (in order of preference)
mirror from ftp1, a close tier-1, a close tier-2.

in most countries, all the freebsd mirrors are NOT identical and in
fact some have very different structures.  if you round robin you
might find installations/end users have very different paths or content
to deal with every time.

-jason


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