Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:43:39AM -0800, 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!
> 
What's wrong with DNS-based load-balancing solution?
I.e.

        cvsup[1-8]      CNAME   cvsup   ; for backward compatibility
        cvsup           A       x.x.x.x
                        A       y.y.y.y
                        ...
                        A       z.z.z.z

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