[TriLUG] Red Hat Linux 9 on Cyrix?

[James Manning]

> What Netselect does is, given a list of mirrors, choose the one that is 
> closest (hops) and has the fastest ping times.  It doesn't check 
> download speeds, but it does a pretty good job picking the best mirror 
> anyway.

For those on Debian that want similar functionality, apt-spy's in the
distribution (is netselect an abstraction of apt-spy?  That'd be
nice to see.)

       apt-spy is a program that downloads from the  Debian  ftp
       site  (ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.html)
       a list of current Debian mirrors,  parses  that  list  and
       tests  each  site  for  latency  and  bandwidth.   It then
       chooses   the   top   three   sites    and    writes    an
       /etc/apt/sources.list based on this.

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