"Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Wed Jan 22 17:08:00 GMT 2003


On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Lapo Luchini writes:
> David Starks-Browning wrote:
> 
> >If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not
> >even the first time it runs.  Can an arbitrary sort order be
> >acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping
> >performance?
> >
> What harm can do a single 50-byte UDP packet when there is high 
> probabiilty that a real "connection" needshundreds of big TCP packets 
> just to download setup.bz2?
> Less harm than "people" using always the first mirror as they never 
> re-order it, imho.

OK, good point.  As long as nothing *blocks* waiting for pings to
finish, I guess I don't care if setup pings.

Thanks,
David



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