Problem (again) with portsnap5.FreeBSD.org?

[Royce Williams]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:51 AM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:24 +0200 Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
>
>> I have noticed on the machines I use/administer a bias towards
>> portsnap5.

> If you define a cache environment variable the random choice is seeded
> by that to improve the caching. There may also be some weighting in the
> SRV record.

Yep - update5 is currently weighted 50% in the SRV:

$ host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.FreeBSD.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 10 80 update2.FreeBSD.org.

Royce