John Summerfield wrote: > Lance Davis wrote: >>On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, John Summerfield wrote: >>>You haven't shown how the mirroring system find a good mirror, and the >>>evidence Johnny gave shows it doesn't. >> >>Ehhh ??? > > The shortest "wire" was thousands of kilometres long. From a networking > POV, that's not good. I know about Coriolis being different down under, but speed of light also? >>>Your mirror system doesn't show them to users, and that's a problem to >>>those users whom it costs. >> > >We only list mirrors that tell us they want to be listed. We are not > >about to go searching the net to find other ones. > > I'm only an ignorant user, I don't know how the Centos organisation > works or how you found the systems you do list. Well, then *think*. > I've been using the Internet for quite a few years; when I was learning > its ins & outs, I read that one should choose a mirror that is > relatively local (as measured by the wire). Yeah, that latency can get annoying if you go around the earth ~7 times. > There aren't that many wires out of Perth, and they're very long ones, > so from our perspective geographic locality and topological locality are > pretty much the same. > > Use of mirrors on the opposite side of the globe when there's a nearer > choice just goes to tie up bandwidth needlessly, increasing costs for > all. It's a bad idea. Then CentOS has to *KNOW* about these mirrors. If we don't - how do you expect those mirrors to get listed? By probing each ftp server world wide? > There were several other mirrors listed, so there were other mirrors > available. Yes. Mirrors which the CentOS team *knew* about. Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra@xxxxxxxxxxxx | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC
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