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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 November 2003 9:01 pm, Simon Waters wrote: > used "netselect-apt" which uses udp packets ala traceroute to probe the remote hosts response time and hops. running uk.debian.org, i see lots of these, and it's most annoying. random udp packets hitting high ports are dropped (for obvious reasons), but has the side effect that your closest mirror is actually not selected ;), not only that, but in this dy and have, hops on a network mean nothing. Only one hop from your ADSL CPE to your ISP? yeah, right. netselect thinks my closest mirror is in poland, instead of ftp.uk.debian.org three hops away on a machine with a 0.2 load and only shifting about 25mbit/sec. if netselect wanted to be slightly clever, it could at least make a http HEAD request and see the response time. /rant :) ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/x9bI448CrwpTn6YRAt/OAJ474rMzJFdk5Um15jF6ijqJ6FybKQCgwYF3 TbqKExdbP74GvU4qV7NjOxc= =2drd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.