Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:16:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904071612280.12549@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200904071121.n37BLhbY007253@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <200904071121.n37BLhbY007253@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote: > Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will > hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might > be nearer &/or faster. > There is a tool called fastest_sites that uses round trip for the tcp hanshake wich is a little bit better than ping. I wrote about it here: http://www.arnold.se/chris/2008/11/how-to-speed-up-downloading-ports/ But the real solution is to do this the right waw. And we are a couple of people involved in making this happen. Notheing ready yet but be shure you will read all about it soon on a mailling list close to you... /Chris -- http://www.arnold.se/chris
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