On Aug 8, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > I'm interested in what unique network situation causes the rtt test to be an > unreliable indicator of which mirror to choose. > > I have a feeling you misunderstood that.
Ryan said: "it's possible for a server to respond quickly to pings but slowly to actual file transfers" I'm interested in what prompted that. > Everyone has a unique situation which can include broken local stuff (I have > to go through a local network not under my control that likes to have 80% > loss on "ping" at various times of the day, all incurred locally), Which (if you are experiencing poor mirror selection problems) is a good data point (ie, the rtt test maybe can't reliably use ICMP echo and needs a fallback or alternative strategy). [snip speculation about local internet provider that may or may not do 'interesting' things to traffic] -- Daniel J. Luke _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
