Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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).
There were other objections which were serious to make me (hang on
a second -- where is that CVSupMeister cap ... ah, there we go,
it's in place now) decide not to do it.  One objection was that a
mirror might have been network-isolated from the master server for an
extended period of time.  In that case, you'd randomly get a _big_
step backwards in time.

John
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  John Polstra                                               j...@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief."           -- James V. DeLong



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