> >Hmm, I'd guess this puts the mirror list prioritization by response > >time rather high on the TODO list... > > I never considered it before but that would tend to cause the mirrors > with the best response time to be chosen almost exclusively, wouldn't > it? That might end up having the opposite effect from what is intended. > > I guess we could randomly sort the mirrors but, with all of the people > who have already chosen archive.progeny.com as their default mirror, > I'm not sure it would have much effect. > > >Of course, another reason why that mirror is so heavily used is that it's > >a good high-speed mirror with timely updates, at least in the US. > > Right. I don't think there is a simple solution to this. >
You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query ftp/http servers for how much load they're under? -- Gary R. Van Sickle
