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Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposedto be?
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Lapo Luchini writes:
> 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.
OK, good point. As long as nothing *blocks* waiting for pings to
finish, I guess I don't care if setup pings.
Thanks,
David