Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/

Daniel C. Sobral dcs at tcoip.com.br
Mon Aug 11 06:25:13 PDT 2003


João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
> 
>     The discussion about ftp holes and links reminded me about other 
> possible problem: Some ftp DNS names may point to multiple IP Addresses 
> (I've seen this already, but do not know if it's valid), and some 
> multiple DNS names could point to the same IP (ftp3.de and ftp6.de 
> example).  Your program is surely the best place to check for this, and 
> probably list same IPs only once.

It was done this way in .br.freebsd.org to increase reliability of the 
sites. It seems mirrors here disappear as fast as they appear. :-)

I must say I prefer the idea of duplicating IPs to deal with this problem.

Alas, it doesn't look like this is still done for ftp (though it's still 
done for www and cvsup).

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