Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-29 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here's a perl script i wrote that uses the 'ping' program to find the > 'distance' to a mirror, sorting the sites from closest to farthest. Unfortunately raw ping times are not very well correlated to bandwidth. A better

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-28 Thread John Labovitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What would you think about a script that checks the > connectivity to a given set of "closest" mirrors based on the "Timezone" > or so and reports the "fastest" mirror available? here's a perl script i wrote that uses the 'ping' program to find the 'distance' to a mirr

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-27 Thread Adam Heath
> > > I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian > > FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: > > > These 27 of our 42 listed mirrors are up-to-date. Some may be missing > > from this list because they are more than 24 hours behind the master > > copy of the Deb

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-27 Thread F. Fernandez
Alexander LIST wrote: > Great idea! What would you think about a script that checks the > connectivity to a given set of "closest" mirrors based on the "Timezone" > or so and reports the "fastest" mirror available? Closest to what? The client end or the server end? To be effective, that script sh

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-27 Thread Alexander LIST
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian > FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: > These 27 of our 42 listed mirrors are up-to-date. Some may be missing > from this list because they are more than 24 hours behind t

mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-26 Thread Bruce Perens
I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: Site NameTimestamp of Debian Archive aij.st.hmc.edu Wed Dec 25 04:20:29 UTC 1996 chaos.xtn.net Wed Dec 25 04:20:29 UTC 1996 debian.med.miami.eduWed Dec 25