Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 19:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org Message-ID: <XFMail.990530191814.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990530205539.B41328@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > A simple round-robin DNS for all the active cvsup servers should > suffice; make it cvsup.freebsd.org, stick it back in the sample cvsup > config files, and put a comment mentioning that if you only cvsup once > a day or less it will work fine. > > I think the only complaint about RR servers (the last time this was > brought up) was that if you cvsup'ed twice in a short period of time, > you might catch two servers with different update times (differing by > up to an hour). There were other objections which were serious to make me (hang on a second -- where is that CVSupMeister cap ... ah, there we go, it's in place now) decide not to do it. One objection was that a mirror might have been network-isolated from the master server for an extended period of time. In that case, you'd randomly get a _big_ step backwards in time. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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