Karl Berry wrote: > > It's basically just a few lines that interface between the mirmon > data and GeoIP, as I recall.
Hmm, this is wrong, I believe. The geographically closest mirror is not necessarily the fastest one. In fact with my disgusting monopolist provider it never is. Connecting to ftpmirror.gnu.org redirects to a Greek mirror, which is indeed closest (closer than the Ukrainian one). But it's not the fastest, I think. Furthermore, concrete URLs don't appear to work, e.g. $ LC_ALL=C wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz --00:00:54-- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz => `m4-1.4.12.tar.gz.2' Resolving ftp.gnu.org... 140.186.70.20 Connecting to ftp.gnu.org|140.186.70.20|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! $ LC_ALL=C wget ftp://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz --00:07:02-- ftp://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz => `m4-1.4.12.tar.gz.3' Resolving ftpmirror.gnu.org... 142.132.30.225 Connecting to ftpmirror.gnu.org|142.132.30.225|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /gnu/m4 ... No such directory `gnu/m4'.
