In the last episode (May 30), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > FYI.. cvsup5.freebsd.org (2xXeon, also wearing the hat of cvsup4)
> > is also still not at capacity and welcomes anyone in need of CVSup
> > services, updates are also hourly from freefall.
>
> I was wondering the other day about the feasibility of setting up
> some kind of load meter for the various cvsup servers, so people
> could determine the best one to use and share the load a bit more.
> Perhaps this could even be taken a step further and cvsup could
> choose the optimal server for you based on an end-to-end network
> bandwidth metric and the server load.
A simple round-robin DNS for all the active cvsup servers should
suffice; make it cvsup.freebsd.org, stick it back in the sample cvsup
config files, and put a comment mentioning that if you only cvsup once
a day or less it will work fine.
I think the only complaint about RR servers (the last time this was
brought up) was that if you cvsup'ed twice in a short period of time,
you might catch two servers with different update times (differing by
up to an hour).
> I'm sure there are many people who aren't using the optimal server
> for their network location.
I don't think bandwidth is a problem; I used to cvsup daily from a
14.4K modem and it only took 5 minutes.
-Dan Nelson
dnel...@emsphone.com
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