On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:35:24PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:02, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query > > ftp/http servers for how much load they're under? > > Not as a standard. > > Thinking out loud, what we roughly want is: > -users can choose any mirror explicitly. > -on the first run, setup lists the servers in their 1/3 of the world > (say europe, asia, americas) and randomly chooses one from there, ^^, africa, > letting them alter the choice, or click something to see the entire > list. > -when we implement this, setup treats it as a watershed event on > existing installs, and displays a little explanation and consider 'first > run' to be occuring. Do "we" actually have information on where the different mirrors are? For all of them?
Would it, as a temporary measure, be possible to randomize the mirror list for new installs so the first pick is not necesserilly the first alphabetical one? I think that would probably be a lot easier to implement than the final solution, and would help a little bit already.. Is there a way to know whether the user explicily chose their mirror (other than it not being the first in the list, and there only being one)? Just thinking.. rlc -- operators on strike due to broken coffee machine