----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >What you should do is have all the sites pinged when parsing > >mirrors.lst, and then store the resulting list and times for future > >reference on disk. > > The mirrors list is supposed to be automatically "pre pinged". The list > of mirrors that you see is supposed to be a list of sites with the > most up-to-date info. > > I get a list twice a day of mirror sites which have failed the "up-to-date" > test. They get removed from the list.
For a user in (say) Australia, your ping results are incorrect. We are talking about presenting the fastest mirror _from the users location_. Rob
