I am realistically thinking more along the lines of less than once a release cycle. More like whenever it comes upon a user that their mirror of choice chooses to no longer be a mirror. I had that happen to me. It would be convenient to have a program that can easily compare mirror latencies and download speeds. I was hoping that maybe pkg_add could be modified to have a timeout and accept input from the program I am making if that occurs, or there is no mirror setup for the machine. If it is implemented, more generous bandwidth and lesser burdened mirrors would have more equitably distributed traffic.
> What you meant was thousands of users sending handful of pings across the world to a lot of the mirrors each time they (re)restart pkg_add?
