I have this dilemma every time I configure a new Debian box and am setting up which mirror to point dselect and apt to.
I want to find the sites that have fewer hops and lower ping times than the rest.... so that I can use the sites that are "closer" (not geographically, but as far as net traffic goes) and do my part to keep backbone traffic down. I'm wondering if there's a tool out there that can take a list of hostnames and give me some output showing number of hops and ping times. I've already written a rudimentary one in perl (if anyone's interested), but I figure someone else has surely written a better one already.... Well? - Joe
