From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 14:24:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543CE16A5E0 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3624943D62 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D02388F31 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:24:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:20:44 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1159954173.25828.2.camel@localhost> References: <4256BB8CAC97017A8BF293DE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20061003225950.GA53790@icarus.home.lan> <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com> <1159954173.25828.2.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========34DE35F0EDCB8BFB51B1==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Incredibly slow mirror site X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:24:25 -0000 --==========34DE35F0EDCB8BFB51B1========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:29:33 +0100 Florent Thoumie=20 wrote: >> >> The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use >> mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real >> bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why >> that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first? > > Belgium =3D=3D Third world? Now that's new :-) I don't know about that, but that site is unbelieveably slow, and it=20 appears to be the first choice for all kde downloads. I'm thinking there=20 must be something wrong, because kde upgrades have worked fine in the past. I wonder if there's a way to add code to the ports stuff that checks=20 download speed and aborts if it's below some configurable number and tries=20 the next site in the list? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========34DE35F0EDCB8BFB51B1==========--