Important thing first, the mirror http://openbsd.cs.fau.de/pub/OpenBSD/ seems to be down.
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:19:42 -0600 Luke Small <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 500 line program I wrote that reads openbsd.org.ftp.html and > scraps off the html and ftp mirrors, records them all without redundancies > as http mirrors in memory and downloads the appropriate version and machine > architecture's SHA256 in the package folder. It tests all the mirrors for > time, one at a time and uses kqueue to kill any laggy ftp calls. It uses > ftp() calls for all its networking, so it shouldn't be too much of a > security issue I'd guess. It writes the top 8 mirrors into /etc/pkg.conf it > erases all the installpath entries while leaving everything else in the > file. It can run as an unprivileged user, but of course it won't rewrite > /etc/pkg.conf > -Luke N Small My quick-n-dirty script[1] tells me as long as I use a mirror geographically close to me, I'll be fine. - time diff in same country between different mirrors <=10% - time diff same server tested multiple times <=10% - time diff local vs. halfway around the earth >100% to <300% [1] pkg_ping.sh #!/bin/sh #usage: ./pkg_ping.sh uk #to test all the uk servers. TMPFILE=/tmp/pkg_ping.tmp SHATMP=/tmp/pkg_ping.sha if [ ! -f ${TMPFILE} ] then ftp -o - http://www.openbsd.org/build/mirrors.dat |\ grep -e ^GZ -e ^UH |\ grep -B1 -e ^UH |\ grep -e ^GZ -e ^UH |\ cut -f 2- > ${TMPFILE} fi grep -A1 -e "^$1" ${TMPFILE} | grep http |\ while read line do echo trying ${line} time ftp -o ${SHATMP} ${line}/snapshots/packages/amd64/SHA256 done
