SourceForge mirrors

[Moritz Heiber]

Thank you Duncan,

as I said previously, I think its worth a shot .. on both code ends:
When using lin (which invokes lget on SOURCE_URL[n]) and of course when
choosing a default mirror.

We could tweak the code so that if no mirror has ever been set
previously it goes along and tries to find the best one using
find-mirror. Also, something like "Try to find best mirror" nested
inside the mirror menu would be helpful.

I have yet no word from our fearless leader though ...

Regards,

Moritz

On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:27:06 +0200
Duncan Gibson <duncan at thermal.esa.int> wrote:

> 
> I had some problems trying to update libpng, tcl and tk at the weekend
> because the download from osdn.dl.sourceforge.net, my default
> SourceForge mirror, failed. After advice from #lunar, I've now
> changed it to one a little closer to home and less problematic.
> 
> While looking for the mirrors, I found
> http://find-mirror.sourceforge.net which provides a utility for
> working out round trip times for a list of mirrors. In a twist of
> supreme irony I couldn't download it this morning because the closest
> mirrors were not available either :-(
> 
> I offer this for interest only: YMMV, but I'm not sure it's reliable.
> The 'ping' and 'connect' methods return 9999.99 (failed to connect)
> as the round trip time for all mirrors, but that's might be down to
> the firewall. The 'echo' method does return round trip times (and
> OSDN is second on the list.
> 
> BTW: The 'connect' and 'echo' methods only seem to give results when
> I also use the --debug option.
> 
> Cheers
> Duncan / engelsman
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