On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about a user-initiated step (port test-mirrors?), cached into one of the .conf files, that would simply compare ping results among the available mirrors. It could simply store the fastest mirror as the one to use. A user might be able to re-run the test periodically to determine the current fastest mirrors.
Lots of places misguidedly block or filter ICMP. ... but you could probably create a reasonable implementation.
Perhaps we could follow some of the work done to find the fastest FreeBSD cvsup servers...<http://ipucu.enderunix.org/view.php?id=553&lang=en>We already retain a list of mirrors for a given id (sourceforge, gnu, etc.), so we know the servers to query. MacPorts could store a "preferred mirror" for each id based on the fastest ping results.
I look forward to seeing the patch ;-) -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+
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