check fastest mirror

[Jean Michel Bruenn]

Forgotten some things in ToDo, here the full list:

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# (Perhaps) ToDo:
# 1.) Add Hosts netselect don't show cause of missing
#     Hops.
#     We could ping them three times to have an
#     average and an resulting time then we could
#     compare it to the fastest mirror netselect found.
#     I know, this could be dangerous, but.. any
#     better idea?
# 2.) Write this "writing to /etc/lunar/config" thing.
# 3.) Remove "Custom" on the fly from the mirror lists
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Greetings

Jean Michel Bruenn


On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:59:28 +0200
Jean Michel Bruenn <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> i talked ago with some developers and wrote a little bash script, it's not ready at all you'll find a todo list in it.
> 
> This script uses netselect to determine the fastest available mirror. The main problem is, if a mirror is blocking traceroutes it's shown as slowest server, so it's possible that this tool writes that the fastest server is in the netherlands (if i live in germany and all german mirrors blocking traceroutes). On the other side, that's good - Cause it would use only working mirrors.
> 
> Feel free to test this script, and perhaps add it as lmirrcheck or something like that.
> 
> Here are two examples
> 	From my server:
> 
> 	root at ip-minds ~ # ./checkfastestmirror 
> 	Okay, let's try to find out the fastest mirror near to you, pal
> 	Testing fastest GNOME mirror... http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/
> 	Testing fastest GNU mirror... Custom
> 	Testing fastest LRESORT mirror... http://fr-de.lunar-linux.org/lunar/cache/
> 	Testing fastest SFORGE mirror... http://nvhv.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
> 	Testing fastest KERNEL mirror... ftp://ftp.do.kernel.org/
> 	Testing fastest KDE mirror... Custom
> 	Testing fastest XFREE86 mirror... Custom
> 	Okay, found them, now we write them to the config file..
> 
> 	(See ToDo cause of Custom)
> 
> 	From my local pc:
> 
> 	root at chani /home/wdp # ./checkfastestmirror
> 	Okay, let's try to find out the fastest mirror near to you, pal
> 	Testing fastest GNOME mirror... http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/
> 	Testing fastest GNU mirror... ftp://194.97.2.70/pub/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
> 	Testing fastest LRESORT mirror... http://fr-de.lunar-linux.org/lunar/cache/
> 	Testing fastest SFORGE mirror... http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
> 	Testing fastest KERNEL mirror... http://www.aq.kernel.org/
> 	Testing fastest KDE mirror... http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
> 	Testing fastest XFREE86 mirror... http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/
> 	Okay, found them, now we write them to the config file..
> 	root at chani /home/wdp # 
> 
> Script attached.
> 
> Greetings
> Jean Michel Bruenn