Subject: Re: ..and use mirrors! (was Re: current anoncvs machine needs a ticket to the moon)
To: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/2005 17:43:54
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:24:18AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> Has anyone ever considered setting up a rolling mirror for these guys?
> I'm not sure if these are accomplished with DNS, or what, but they
> work like this:
>=20
> roller.netbsd.org would randomly redirect you to one of many mirrors
> and, that way, distribute load a little better.
>=20
> Although I've never been a huge fan of using DNS as a load-balancer,
> it might be helpful.  I'm pretty sure the fink project uses something
> like this.

it's called round-robin and it's a PITA with ssh keys.


regards,

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