cvsup.uk.freebsd.org is not updating

[Matthew Seaman]

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Lee Brotherston wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:36:08AM +0100, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
>> Does anyone think that this is a bad idea?
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> One of the IRC networks I frequent does this, and I find that it works
> very well indeed.  Those who know a specific server they wish to
> connect to can find it easily.  Those who don't care join the pool of
> people hitting the list of CNAMES, and so the server owners benefit
> from a sort of poor-mans load balancing.
> 

Isn't this what SRV records were invented to do? A la RFC 2782 ? 
Not that there's any client-side support for using SRV records in csup
or cvsup though.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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