Re: New APT Version
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> writes:
> > with a large list of servers, how can you reasonably-well
> > prioritize them based on speed/efficiency/nearness etc.
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Look at pathchar, a very very cool tool written by Van Jacobsen. Only
> binaries are available right now as it's still in alpha.
Er.. pathchar is overkill. What you want is a variation on bing (also by
Van Jacobsen, but which we have a package for). The variation should:
(a) report only the critical statistic, (b) automatically stop sampling,
and (c) if possible probe more than one site at a time.
--
Raul
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