On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:46:10PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 19:59, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> Robert Collins wrote: >> >> >But: even after that is done, I think we should reexamine the sorting >> >concept, and perhaps sort by the sources.redhat.com order (for us->site >> >speed), or perhaps user mirrors then official, etc. >> > >> > >> I guess the best would be to sort by "ping time" (smalest to bigger) to >> help reduce unnecessary trans-oceanic downloads. > >Which means pinging all the sites, and storing the results. We use the >official mirror list today, so we can't do this *today*. Also there are >other, more policy issues - time to ping all the sites, policy of the >sites (do they allow ping?).
The check-mirrors script is available via cvs. If you check out the htdocs, you'll get it. You can also view it via http://cygwin.com/check-mirrors . This script checks the master mirror list: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.txt for mirror availability and updates mirrors.lst and mirrors.html accordingly. If someone wants to modify this script to add "time it took to check" to a file somewhere, I wouldn't object. Of course, the time it took to check a mirror from a system located in Raleigh, NC, USA is going to differ from the time anywhere else in the world, maybe substantially. cgf