> hmmm measuring during the times the net is quiet sounds evil... also > loading a bunch of mirrors all the time just to measure bw sounds like > it won't scale well with the number of people doing it. > > I wonder if yum could do a reverse dns lookup, and then do a > right-to-left matching trick on the name vs the mirrors (perhaps > excepting .com/.net/.org); that way for me, I get at least mirrors in > .nl, and if my ISP's mirror gets into the mirror list, I'll always get > that one. > > Well maybe it needs a few tricks, like traceroute to somewhere with a > TTL of 4, and use some of the intermediate machines for the matching as > well (and have the same info available for each mirror) so that you stay > within the same upstream bandwidth provider etc etc The above is why I suggested doing this in a secondary script and not in yum. It would be a mess to put that code _in_ yum. But if someone wanted to write a generic mirror tester then lots of things could use it. -sv
