Re: periodic downloads of /debian/ls-lR.gz

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:21:02PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 07:24:22AM -0400, Ricardo Yanez wrote:
> > I have noted that certain sites download /debian/ls-lR.gz over and over  
> > again, every 3 or so minutes. The connection has no agent. Is there a  
> > Debian utility or tool that does this, or is this just wasteful?
> 
> I don't know any tool that use this file.

At least apt-spy uses it (a tool to select the fastest Debian mirror
around):
  /* Default file to grab when benchmarking */
  char d_file[] = "ls-lR.gz";

While netselect-apt uses only latency as a criteria. 

-- 
Simon Paillard