Alexander LIST wrote: > Great idea! What would you think about a script that checks the > connectivity to a given set of "closest" mirrors based on the "Timezone" > or so and reports the "fastest" mirror available?
Closest to what? The client end or the server end? To be effective, that script should run in the client side, witch would require some kind of instalation and setup. The best way to do it, i think, it would be a small Java applet running in the Debian Web Pages, using a server-based mirror list. As to the Timezone usage, I believe it would be better to base it on traceroute output, not timezone (in my country, for example, for almost an year, the ISP's were not connected to each other, so packets travelling from one to another had to go through the intercontinental links) Anyway, if Bruce could add link speed info for each mirror site in the mirror list it would already be a nice thing and it would give him much less work! :-) Fernando -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
