Sthitaprajna saw fit to inform LI that: 

>Is there any application running on Linux to do a ftp search and then 
>ping the resulting sites? I mean, if I decide to download 
>pacgage_x_y_z.tar.gz, I feed its name to the application, it does a 
>ftp search, and then pings each of the reulting sites and shows which 
>is the fastest. Then, I run wget on the package..

Gozilla does this - but it doesn't ping.  It measures ftp throughput, and
if that falls below a certain level, cycles between different ftp sites.

>I searched freshmeat without success...If it does'nt exist, any idea 
>how to go about it?

Any gozilla equivalent?  I'd hate to hear that there's even one 'doze
software which does something linux software can't do (producing BSOD's
excepted, of course)

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.

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