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"

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:31:13PM +0100, Martin Schulze 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
> > 
> > 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.

See above - just temporary for purposes of demonstration.

Though I think that the case is already clear, but to eliminate any doubt
whatsoever...

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