svn commit: r289421 - in head/etc: . mtree ntp

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Oct 18 07:26:13 UTC 2015


On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 05:48:19PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> It should be very easy to try to fetch it once a day in June and December
> until you succeed from each of the URLs in a list, with the default
> list being the two canonical (for the US at least) sources. Shouldn’t
> be more than a dozen lines in a periodic script.

We probably also want to avoid trying to fetch an update at the
same moment from a bunch of time synchronised machines. A random
sleep might be enough, but we should be careful about setting
automatic updates that fetch things from infrastructure other than
our own.

	David.


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