Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:50 AM, David H. wrote: Hello fans. For a long time it has been known that the algorithm we choose your "closest" mirror by, might not be the best one. Here is a new idea and I hope you will leave you comments for me. Well, it sounds neat, but wouldn't it be better to use the closest according to the route the packets take, rather than the line distance on a map? You might be connected to the same backbone as a large mirror, but it could be farther geographically. - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Please sign reply-http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkRNih4ACgkQ+/mCMqKrwHBU6gCg3/jWcKJKyDSaqdS+fCO5us8a RGAAoJXHh5HitjmFF1KpQdzBuIYIcQ6B =aCTz -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] ee-1.4.2-3
On 4/23/06, Thomas Würgler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- > Package manager version: 0.23.10 > Distribution version: 0.8.0 > Mac OS X version: 10.4.6 > Xcode version: 2.0 > gcc version: 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061) > make version: 3.80 > Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander > > And what exactly do you wish to report? Fink Commander doesn't insert any text other than what's shown here. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (for now) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.
Hello fans. For a long time it has been known that the algorithm we choose your "closest" mirror by, might not be the best one. Here is a new idea and I hope you will leave you comments for me. It would be quite trivial to publish DNS LOC records for every mirror that finkmirrors has to offer to the community. For those of you who do not know what that is, please do follow this link: http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/ What would happen is the following: Either the Installer or fink configure would ask something like: "Would you like to choose your mirror by geo location?" if you answer with yes you will need to enter your Location by longitude/latitude. There are several services out there which will tell you down to your street address, for example geocoder.us or geocoder.ca Earthwind and Google earth as well. Once that information is in the system, fink will fetch all DNS LOC records (it will only do this pereodically) and then use something like the link mentions below: http://geocoder.us/blog/2006/04/21/calculating-distances/ It will try to calculate the "air distance" and then pick the one mirror that is physically closest. I know that this might not necessarily result in the best connectivity, but most of the time physical closeness does result in better download speeds. Your comments are very welcome. PS: of course this would also mean you would get a nice map of all the Fink mirror's locations on this planet for free :) -d --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] ee-1.4.2-3
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