j proctor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>> Is there anything else one might do with this sort of info that I'm not
*>> aware of? Any comments and ideas will be appreciated.
*>
*>Geographic information is nice, but it is still the case that resources
*>physically down the street may be hundreds of network-miles away.
*>Information about network connectivity, if nothing other than which
*>of the major backbone(s) and any occasional special or regional
*>networks (e.g. Internet2) the mirror's connected to.
Yes, I realise this :) But one application is geographic, and i did say
*geographic* proximity for shits and giggles...so you can drive up the
road to have your picture taken with a cpan mirror. this happens as I
recall a number of people wanting to get a picture taken with wuarchive
back in the heyday of ftp and gopher.
Another application could be a 'insert your ip and find the closest
network archive' but that would be harder to do and i'm not sure I really
care.
*>A "sort for _____ network first" would make a nice addition if you had
*>that info about a significant number of hosts, too. I, for instance,
*>would look for I2 then CWIX before picking a north american mirror at
*>random.
If you noticed, they are sorted geographically by continent, country. It
is of little or no value to test the pipe from the website as the pipe the
surfer is coming in from may be totally different and the metric totally
incorrect. The information for status will say that it is up and current
with the mother ship, up and lagging 'x hours' behind the mother ship, up
and pending removal due to lag and not responding which has somewhat more
value.
I can offer that out of 159 public mirrors currently that 116 of them
mirror funet.fi and that we lack mirrors in scotland and the caribbean
where i hope to go on some sort of diplomatic mission soon to remedy that
most disturbing lack :)
e.
