RE: [forwarded email: cygwin mirrors and installation]

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> >Hmm, I'd guess this puts the mirror list prioritization by response
> >time rather high on the TODO list...
>
> I never considered it before but that would tend to cause the mirrors
> with the best response time to be chosen almost exclusively, wouldn't
> it?  That might end up having the opposite effect from what is intended.
>
> I guess we could randomly sort the mirrors but, with all of the people
> who have already chosen archive.progeny.com as their default mirror,
> I'm not sure it would have much effect.
>
> >Of course, another reason why that mirror is so heavily used is that it's
> >a good high-speed mirror with timely updates, at least in the US.
>
> Right.  I don't think there is a simple solution to this.
>

You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query
ftp/http servers for how much load they're under?

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Gary R. Van Sickle