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Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 5 10:32:41 PDT 2003
On 5 May, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # kirk at strauser.com / 2003-05-05 10:04:39 -0500:
>> At 2003-05-05T14:18:11Z, Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> writes:
>> Actually, I had an idea:
>>
>> Debian makes "ftp.us.debian.org" a round-robin pointer to any of a number of
>> machines. What about doing the same for FreeBSD, and making scripts replace
>> references to "ftp.freebsd.org" with "ftpmirror.freebsd.org" or similar?
>> Then, those with specific needs could still download from ftp.freebsd.org,
>> but everyone else would automatically get a mirror site.
>
> wouldn't just giving 1< IP addresses for ftp.freebsd.org have the
> same effect?
This can provide hours of entertainment if the mirrors get out of sync.
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