Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-25 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 25, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Apr 25, 2006, at 03:08:59, David H. wrote: The question is, is there a fairly simply way to determine routing information and calculating a sane path in a reasonable time? Traceroute? Ping?

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Apr 25, 2006, at 03:08:59, David H. wrote: The question is, is there a fairly simply way to determine routing information and calculating a sane path in a reasonable time? Traceroute? Ping? Some combination of the two? Have the user specify country (and maybe state/province), then look

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-25 Thread David H.
Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -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 yo

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-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. W

[Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-24 Thread David H.
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 off