On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of the more important fields missing from many Linux distros mirror > lists is the geographical location field that would provide a country and a > state/province for each mirror. That information is stored in some data > base on the internet, but not everybody who looks at a mirror list for the > first time is necessarily going to know which tool to send the list through > to get all those geographical locations appended to that mirror list. A > guess on my part would be the whois data base but what command to run to get > the capacity the url, and the geographic locations out in a mirror list and > only get that information I don't yet know. i think the geographic info would be somewhat superfluous; while i don't know of a command offhand to provide this information, the IP address of mirrors can be geolocated. additionally, geographic location has little to do with your network location... when i lived in montana (USA), every single packet i sent was routed through salt lake city, utah, several hundred miles away, before going anywhere else. if anything, rankmirrors itself could provide this information; but it wouldn't be that useful in deciding on a mirror. just get the top 6 or so, pick one that works well, and forget about it :-) kernel.org works fine for me. C Anthony
