We time it by actually connecting, not sending an ICMP packet for the record. So if you have a not-so-transparent proxy in front of you then its quite possible that the timings differ.
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 4:17:29 PM UTC+1, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > What could be the reason that for me the mirror search shows >5s ping for > many mirrors, also for switch.ch which is always 20ms from here (and a > manual ping confirms this)? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.