Re: finding the closest mirror

At 21:34 26/05/2002, Jim Winstead wrote:

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:28:28AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: I think this assumption may actually be pretty unsafe - I think that 'remote' places tend to be linked directly to the US, rather than to the geographically-near neighbors. This definitely applies for .il (Turkey, the 2nd on the list, will be 10x slower than the US for me), but I believe it applies for most of the non-US world (Europe may also be closely interlinked, so maybe non-US non-Euro). well, regardless, until someone builds a tool that can provide the network distance from an ip address to each of our mirrors, using geography is probably the best thing we can do. hopefully people in countries that aren't connected with their neighbors realize this and will pick a more appropriate mirror on their own.

Well, I think that a more suitable algorithm would be to only use this if there's a mirror in the same country, and use a US mirror otherwise. Zeev