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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!marge.eaglequest.com!news.tacom.army.mil!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: closer sup server? Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:21:40 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3238FD74.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <519p8n$4re@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk> Ian Pallfreeman wrote: > Although I've perused the appropriate documentation, I can't seem to find the > list of alternative sup servers anywhere. Ideally I'm looking for one either > on ja.net or with good LINX connectivity. Can anybody help? They, like all other Internet-based FreeBSD resources, are chosen by formula. You try your local domain first: % host sup.uk.freebsd.org <no such host - damn, gotta get one of these in the UK> Then if that fails you try the next level up, which in your case would be the EC: % host sup.eu.freebsd.org <It exists! We can use this one> However, let's say that the link to Germany is hosed that day (not an uncommon event in the UK, as I recall :-) and sup.eu.freebsd.org is unusable. Then you start measuring ping times to sup.freebsd.org, sup2.freebsd.org, sup3.freebsd.org and so on. Pick whichever one gives you the best connectivity that day and sup away. Project for someone into a little bit of Tk (or Motif or xforms or whatever) hacking: This process really needs to get front-ended by a clever program which figures out the neighboring CVSup servers (it's not worth it to support sup, since sup's too inflexible) and sorts them by ping time, like Kali does. When you click on a server, it shows you a list of the available releases you cangrab (basically any tag if you're using CVSup) and gives you a place to type in the destination for a given collection, for which there would also be a selection area. Once you have everything configured to your satisfaction, it just spits out a supfile and runs CVSup on it. Should be an easy project. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project