Re: Processed: destruction of round-robin functionality is fucking up our mirrors and making Debian suck for many people, hence fixing this is a release-critical "wish"

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:15:10PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > > > If it were possible, (temporarily) adding a securty.d.o mirror in the
> > > > 0.0.0.0 - 127.255.255.255 range would be helpful [...]
> > > > Obviously finding a host that can deal with 13.53 MB/s of sustained
> > > > traffic with a useful IP address to temporarily test this behaviour
> > > > might be difficult. :)
> > > 
> > > Quite.
> > 
> > We might actually be able to help with this at MIT, where steffani is
> > already hosted.  MIT controls 18.0.0.0/8 and, while the lab where
> > steffani is hosted doesn't usually use net 18 address space, we do have
> > some available.  I'd have to double check with the network admin, but it
> > should be trivial to allocate an address for this purpose.  Would it
> > work to simply bring up a separate interface on steffani?
> 
> Did you mention this to DSA, they'd have to configure it at this end?

I may be dumb, but what would another IP address for an existing
security mirror that is already the preferred one buy us?  I would
expect that a second machine in the 128.* zone would be able to
spread the load better.

Regards,

	Joey

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