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Munish Chopra
mchopra at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Sun May 4 17:19:57 PDT 2003
On 2003-05-04 23:50 +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2003, Don Lewis wrote:
>
> > Also, this proposal won't scale very well. Think about what happens
> > when the zillions of machines in each time zone all attempt to contact
> > the ftp server at the same time.
>
> It could be configurable to use a mirror.
>
You're still going to have a crapload of people who will just stick
ftp.freebsd.org in there. I think Don's got the right idea...(it's still
cool functionality).
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Munish Chopra
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