Re: Automatic mirror selection.

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

Dmitriy Tochansky wrote:
> Is there any mechanism to choose mirror automaticly from list?

I don't know. 
I've often wondered similar for FreeBSD sites too,
maybe this is something we could share among the BSDs ?

It should be possible to knock up a script that would generate a
sensible default at least some of the time, to spread the load away
from central servers, eg

With 
        http://www.berklix.net/cgi-bin/printenv
I see my
        REMOTE_ADDR="93.203.208.27"
& nslookup 
        93.203.208.27
        p5DCBD01B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de
so in my case defaults of
        http://www.de.netbsd.org
        http://www.de.freebsd.org
would be good.
If a script couldnt calculate a match, before giving up & returning the root
http://www.netbsd.org, it could also try a 
        ping -c 1 using the 2 letter country sub domain, in case it had been 
created since the script was last updated.

Maybe a student (or anyway with some time) might like to write it ?

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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