Finding the "best" mirror

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On 2004-11-19 (Friday) 10:29, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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. 
> 
    This method will not work in all cases (.edu, in Bulgaria the official
mirror is http://mirrors.evrocom.net /high .bg domain tax/). What about
using http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/ip2country/ip2country.py or similar
solution? Or make a 'worldmap' file that can be used by yum to determinate
the best mirror /f(MyIP, bandwidth, hops, rtt)/?

     BTW: how did you get this header, I mean your email inside?
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