New AU CVSup Mirror Looking for CVSUP4.US Contact

[John Marshall]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, 19:23 -0700, Peter Losher wrote:
> John Marshall wrote:
> 
> In any case, I already have opened up some more slots to see if this
> constant banging against cvsup4.us is just queued requests that have
> been deferred. (which should also help you)  If not, I will have to
> track their admins down (or if that doesn't work - rate limit them) :S

Thanks for that. Hopefully the extra slots will improve the situation.

> > An application for CVSUP-MASTER access was lodged by hostmaster at au on
> > July 3. Is the most appropriate action to continue sit tight and wait to
> > hear back on that, or to arrange access to CVSUP4.US or some other
> > upstream server? If we could arrange access to CVSUP4, that would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> You should really get access to cvsup-master since it only accepts
> connections from other top-tier mirrors (and since it's hosted at
> Yahoo!, your network path to it should be similar to ISC/cvsup4.us)

OK. We'll just wait for an answer on the cvsup-master application. I had
already noticed that cvsup-master, like cvsup4.us, is perfectly situated
for access from the Australian East Coast:

  cvsup-master 180ms (10 hops)
  cvsup4.us    180ms (9 hops)

> That being said, so let me know if you still have issues accessing
> cvsup4.us.

OK. Thanks for looking at this for us.


-- 
John Marshall
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