Re: netselect - choosing the best FTP server automatically

1998-06-26 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:18:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: [netselect http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect-0.1.tar.gz] > This is pretty good, but it seems to loose much meaning for me with > several equal servers, > > ftp1.us.debian.

Re: netselect - choosing the best FTP server automatically

1998-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: > A while ago on debian-devel I proposed an algorithm that would allow APT to > choose the best possible server for each user from a large list > automatically. It could also be used for other tasks, eg. choosing a good > SQUID neighbour or IRC server.