Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> 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.
Thats not so easy. What about this:
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup1.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup2.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup3.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup4.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup5.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup6.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup7.freebsd.org.
cvsup IN CNAME cvsup8.freebsd.org.
If you simply put "cvsup.freebsd.org" into your supfile you'll get
randomly one of them. This should spread the load fairly well. If
you want a special one then simply put "cvsupX.freebsd.org" into
you supfile.
Aint that easy?
I don't see any appearant reson (short of network connectivity) that
one *needs* to get always the *same* server.
--
Andre
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