On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:05:13PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:03:27PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:38, Rob Bradford wrote: > > > Ooh nice, maybe you could integrate with apt-spy or something to find > > > the fastest for the user? > > > > I don't see why not, though I'd be more inclined to add pin support > > first. I had a crazy idea of doing directed graphs for country support, > > so you could just pick your country and the software would find the > > "closest" mirror.
> It's not that simple. For example in Poland there are a few mirrors, and > the "closest" depends on the exact location/ISP of the user. Actually > pretty often some mirrors abroad are _much_ faster than the Polish ones. > Also the situation changes frequently (suddenly a very good mirror > becomes outdated or unreachable), so a tool that automatically probes > the mirrors via network is a must. So, who wants to add support to apt-spy for querying BGP routing tables? :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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