Any US east coast devs: does the French mirror get used often for your archive
downloads?
>From Boston, MA lil.fr.packages.macports.org responds faster to pings than
>packages.macports.org. Since MacPorts uses ping time to calculate where to
>make its initial requests from, we might be sending people across the ocean
>when it isn't for any actual benefit.
After spotting the french mirror being used, my initial check saw these times
(ping, 5 samples each):
average lil.fr.macports.org response: 102.6ms
average packages.macports.org response: 123.8ms
And then here's the route I was taking (mtr, 20 samples):
Tue Jan 1 23:40:43 2013
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
...
4. tge0-1-0-0.core1.sbo.ma.rcn.net 0.0% 21 10.5 13.6 5.5 53.4 10.6
5. tge0-0-0-1.core1.nyw.ny.rcn.net 0.0% 21 22.3 24.7 10.8 70.0 15.9
6. 207.172.15.67 0.0% 21 22.9 21.4 12.4 43.7 8.5
7. 198.32.160.29 0.0% 21 35.3 25.0 11.6 54.6 12.8
8. xe-7-2-0.pao10.ip4.tinet.net 0.0% 21 110.4 106.5 83.8 173.5 21.7
9. internap-gw.ip4.tinet.net 0.0% 21 87.7 95.9 82.2 144.0 15.5
10. border2.te8-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap 0.0% 21 100.2 92.6 82.5 111.9 7.9
11. ???
12. ???
13. ???
14. packages.macports.org 0.0% 20 91.5 90.0 83.8 98.6 4.0
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