check fastest mirror

[Steven Michalske]

Interestingly enough......


cmak just bumped the GeoIP database that provides geographic  
locations based on ip addresses....


this might make it mute for making the mirrors have region codes,   
just filter each mirror through the ip database
then have a region list for external country matches.

get all mirror ip's
flag based on country of mirror
sort through region filter for courtry
download away.


on a side note  why don't we try implementing one of the download  
aggregators/accelerator for multiple mirror sites
That would probably resolve the mirror issues.  As each mirror would  
share the load, thus making sysadmins much happier.

Steve

On Aug 30, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Jon South wrote:

> 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
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