On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Lapo Luchini writes: > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > >If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not > >even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be > >acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping > >performance? > > > What harm can do a single 50-byte UDP packet when there is high > probabiilty that a real "connection" needshundreds of big TCP packets > just to download setup.bz2? > Less harm than "people" using always the first mirror as they never > re-order it, imho.
OK, good point. As long as nothing *blocks* waiting for pings to finish, I guess I don't care if setup pings. Thanks, David
