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Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:05:56 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> David Starks-Browning wrote:
>
> >If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not
> >even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be
> >acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping
> >performance?
>
> What harm can do a single 50-byte UDP packet when there is high
> probabiilty that a real "connection" needshundreds of big TCP packets
> just to download setup.bz2?
> Less harm than "people" using always the first mirror as they never
> re-order it, imho.
Sure, let's randomly reorder the list the first time through, if only to
reduce the load on the first mirror in mirrors.lst. :-D
Igor
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