random fetch location
Guoqin Ren
renguoqin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 01:56:37 UTC 2009
Hi,
Maybe it's a naive question. When I install a package from ports, it
often needs to fetch some files. But sometimes it takes a long time
before finding an available server to fetch. I also notice that it will
try the locations/urls one by one, however the order doesn't change
(correct me if I'm wrong). So the very first server on the list will
get a lot of traffic since everyone will fetch the files from it. Is
there any way to let it randomly pick a url from the list to evenly
distribute the traffic among all the servers?
Cheers,
Guoqin Ren
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