From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95238 invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2015 18:35:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 95229 invoked by uid 89); 28 Aug 2015 18:35:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_60,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:35:10 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1ZVOUS-0001kl-Jx ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:35:04 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:23:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:50:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <18474984.20150828212305@yandex.ru> To: Roger Pack , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me" In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00519.txt.bz2 Greetings, Roger Pack! > It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select > closest" or something like that. How would it know where you are located and how do you define "closest"? The mirrors that are "close" to me give worst speed comparing to the ones across the ocean. > Possibly a web server that would do the redirects for you [?] (or you > could do local pings and see which one answers quickest). Possibly > like what VLC does for its distro's [1] or some other offering already > available. > Related, it would be nice to have a command line option for unattended > install that were "--auto-select-server" for the downloads... > FWIW. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, August 28, 2015 21:22:02 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple