Re: More problems with egcs.cygnus.com

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <200003070926.KAA01141@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
  > > Not built into ftp per se but I believe that the DNS should be able to
  > > handle it. I know that kernel.org, for example, has this feature. I
  > > can do a "ftp ftp.us.kernel.org" and will be randomly routed to one of
  > > the many U.S. mirrors of the base ftp.kernel.org server. I'm no
  > > sysadmin type so I don't know exactly how they do it but I believe its
  > > done by the DNS server.
  > 
  > That would work, but it would require that *all* services on
  > gcc.gnu.org live on all mirrors. For Web, that may be reasonable; for
  > CVS, it is not so easy to arrange that a check-in on one of the
  > mirrors immediately becomes available on all other mirrors and the
  > source system.
Right.  What we were planning/expecting is that mirrors would update via
rsync or CVSup on some regular basis -- we don't know what that period would
be, it might even be different for various mirrors depending on their load
and net connectivity.

anoncvs access (which is the vast majority of CVS accesses) would only be
allowed at mirror sites.  gcc.gnu.org would only be for folks with r/w CVS
access.



  > Of course, users of anonymous CVS should be using anoncvs.cygnus.com;
  > users of rw CVS are currently encouraged to use gcc.gnu.org
  > (egcs.cygnus.com works as well).
Right now anoncvs.cygnus.com == gcc.gnu.org.  That will change in the future.
jeff