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[Jon South]

Auke Kok wrote:
> I actually think this is a bad idea in general. You are trying to come up with 
> a perfect solution to an imperfect problem and not taking friday-night's pr0n 
> rush into account, the fact that your cat is chewing on your wifi antenna, and 
> the ISP playing lottery with your download speeds.

No, I already brought that up. I was trying to suggest the next best 
thing to downloading files several times from the same mirror at 
different times (which would obviously anger the admin), and have lget 
choose a different mirror next time it needed a file off that mirror. 
Granted, that's not too accurate, but at least you have speeds from the 
actual download.

> It's a lot better to just take the FIRST step in the right direction, and then 
> see where we can improve. I think my region-based approach is already good 
> enough for almost anyone, it's easily to implement, it will always work and the 
> overhead is negligent.

Agreed, I didn't mean to imply we must implement this now (or at all), 
it was just an idea for someone to ponder, it's still not perfect, so 
chances are it's not worth implementing at all. Region based mirrors and 
weights is definitely a good step in the right direction.

> Those who want more can ping and traceroute all they want and pick specific 
> mirrors anyway.

$ ping -f sofar at lunar-linux.org
ping: unknown host sofar at lunar-linux.org

DAMN!

-Striker