On 6 Dec 2010, at 21:38, Heizer, Charles wrote:
I'm writing a app that will download and install some software. I would
like to use a distributed download model where the client has a list of
servers and determines which is the one closest to it's self and uses that
one.
Is there a API or something to do this?
Thanks,
Charles
What about using traceroute(8) to count hops?
Richard Stevens gives a C implementation example:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ptSC4LpwGA0Cpg=PA755lpg=PA755dq=traceroute+apisource=blots=Kq9yRnbqOqsig=RywJNgi3MG21DbSIIO5-7oJqVeQhl=enei=Gln9TKnVNcrPhAfTu4SVCwsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=6sqi=2ved=0CEAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepageq=traceroute%20apif=false
Regards
Jonathan Mitchell
Developer
Mugginsoft LLP
http://www.mugginsoft.com
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