FYI: [Fwd: wget 1.10.x: New option --random to randomize thedns result]

[Auke Kok]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:17:57 +0200, Jerry Lundström <prox at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> Jerry Lundström wrote:
>> I hope they accept the patch so we can once again do true round robin
>> mirroring!
> 
> They seem very unwilling to apply this patch, they don't want to add
> functionallity to wget that solves "not-their"-problem.
> 
> If noone objects I think we should use it anyway and I am going to add
> an option '--retry-4xx'. Like '--retry-connrefused' (which I hope we
> use??) it would retry next ip in the address list if the url gave an
> error.
> 
> That in all would give "our" wget alot more flexability to handle
> mirrors that are down or not synced etc...

alternatively, we research alternative download methods and make wget optional. The download code in lunar can already very easily handle downloading through curl, tnftp and probably lftp. This might also give us some leverage against the wget folks. 

Auke