On Fri, May 23, 2008 10:03 pm, Soren Andersen wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:13 -0400 > "Chris Sutcliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a >>> find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? >> >> That would require making a connection attempt to every entry in >> setup's list, which would be rather counter-productive I would think. > > Yes, it would (and annoying, etc...). However, I can envision a > compromise solution in which Setup.exe looks for a file, a la unix user rc > files, and if found reads the address of the preferred host to use from > that file. Caching the result of a one-time burst of pings, in other > words.
Something like /etc/setup/last-mirror, perhaps? :)