Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> > What about having postinst scan your fqdn and uncomment the right
> > entry in the conffile? (And having all the other sites present
> > and commented).
>
> Sounds nice to me. However, being in the same country is not necessarily
> good enough; ftp.au.debian.org is absolutely shocking from here
> (> 3 second pings), but apparently just fine if you're in the same city
> or on the other backbone or something. I would be better off using
> ftp.de.debian.org for example. On the other hand, mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> is just great (< 120ms).
>
Hmm.. Since computers can't do everything, we should make the user
choose from a list at install/configure time. But it would still be nice
to have the obvious hosts at top of the list. :-)
/Frock
>
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