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[Don Lewis]

On  5 May, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # kirk at strauser.com / 2003-05-05 10:04:39 -0500:
>> At 2003-05-05T14:18:11Z, Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> writes:

>> Actually, I had an idea:
>> 
>> Debian makes "ftp.us.debian.org" a round-robin pointer to any of a number of
>> machines.  What about doing the same for FreeBSD, and making scripts replace
>> references to "ftp.freebsd.org" with "ftpmirror.freebsd.org" or similar?
>> Then, those with specific needs could still download from ftp.freebsd.org,
>> but everyone else would automatically get a mirror site.
> 
>     wouldn't just giving 1< IP addresses for ftp.freebsd.org have the
>     same effect?

This can provide hours of entertainment if the mirrors get out of sync.