From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 06:37:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA21982 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 06:37:08 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21977 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 06:37:06 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA01855; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 06:34:51 -0800 To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 04:20:59 EST." Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 06:34:51 -0800 Message-ID: <1853.817223691@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I think that what he's asking for is that sysinstall pings each > one in the list to automatically find the closest, or at least fastest, > site nearest to him... Ah. Well, that would be both time consuming to collect and, as far as getting the remote system's load average is concerned, currently impossible.. :-( If those are the kinds of features that Amancio wants, then he wants the Internet as it will be in a few more years. :) Jordan