Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:43 AM -0800 1/21/00, John Polstra wrote:
>This is another in my series of occasional nags to try to get people
>to use some of the less heavily loaded CVSup mirrors.  In the US
>alone, we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org.
>The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacity and well-connected site,
>yet hardly anybody is using it.  Please give it a try!

Maybe you should make cvsup.freebsd.org as a rotary (of sorts),
which returns a different IP address based on the callers IP
address.  (or is that even possible?)  That way, any given
host will always try the same cvsup server, but you'll be
spreading the load out among the servers.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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