I made a small 500 line program I call pkg_ping that calls uname -rm, ftp,
sed, on openbsd.org/ftp.html. then it changes all the parsed http and ftp
mirrors into http and ftp downloads and changes them to non redundant http
mirrors (it has to to easily call ftp on it). It takes them and downloads
SHA256 from the mirrors and the parent times how long it takes. If it takes
too long it kills the ftp call and goes on to the next one. Then it sorts
the results and puts the winner in /etc/pkg.conf replacing all installpath
instances, while leaving everything else. It doesn't do any network stuff
directly so it probably wouldn't be much of a security problem, but because
it needs to alter a root owned file, it should need root privileges. I
don't only run the release, so I don't even really know how to pledge it.
Is this something somebody would be willing to submit to the project and
maybe alter it slightly.

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