Re: Another question, but about CVS

[Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr UVic CA>]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Michael Duelli wrote:

> 
> Am Sam, 09 Sep 2000 23:45:19 schrieb Carlos Morgado:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:52:40PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > choose the best anoncvs from the poll and stick to it (ie. don't use
> > anoncvs.gnome.org as pserver, use anoncvs[16] or the ips).
> > the servers are usually out of sync and that will maim your working copy.
> > 
> 
> Hi ( another time )
> 
> I am sorry but I don't know what you mean:
> which poll do you mean I didn't find something on developer.gnome.org
> they speak only of one CVS server and that's the anon server.
> 
> And I also don't know what is meant with anoncvs[16] and ips.
> Please try to explain it. ( Scio, non scio ! )
> 

anoncvs.gnome.org is actually a round-robin dns server, that points you at a
different repository every time you try it.  To get better performance you
should find one of the actual machines IPs that is a good repository and use
it instead, as some of the machines from anonvcs aren't very reliable.

MBG

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