The fastestmirror plugin tries to find the fastest mirror
by timing a null TCP connect(), so usually 2x RTT.
However, the value measured includes host DNS lookup overhead,
which is completely unrelated. So, perform it outside
the connect() statement.
---
plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror.py | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror.py
b/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror.py
index 364b90d..acec946 100644
--- a/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror.py
+++ b/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror.py
@@ -503,8 +503,9 @@ class PollThread(threading.Thread):
if uPort > 0:
self.port = int(self.host[uPort+1:])
self.host = self.host[:uPort]
+ host_addr = socket.gethostbyname(self.host)
time_before = time.time()
- sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
+ sock.connect((host_addr, self.port))
result = time.time() - time_before
sock.close()
self.parent._add_result(self.mirror, self.host, result)
--
1.7.4.4
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