Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <436EC661.20309@personnelware.com> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:13:37 -0600 From: Carl Karsten User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where is setup.exe source? References: <436E6A0C.5E565962@dessent.net> <436E7DCC.6E27EA9@dessent.net> <436E891A.489A09B5@dessent.net> <436E995A.1F02F761@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <436E995A.1F02F761@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit root@cp600:/home/carl # man netselect ... For each host, netselect figures out the approximate ping time (though not as accurately as ping does), the number of network "hops" to reach the target, and the percentage of ping requests that got through sucā cessfully. Then netselect calculates the "score" of each operational host based on these values. root@cp600:/home/carl/temp # netselect -s 5 $(curl http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst|awk -F\; '{print $2}') % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 6349 100 6349 0 0 29371 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 94761 60 sourceware.mirrors.tds.net 69 64.50.236.52 72 64.50.236.52 75 sourceware.mirrors.tds.net 95 mirror.calvin.edu Not sure why the IP, but just to be sure: root@cp600:/home/carl # netselect ftp-ext.osuosl.org 40 64.50.236.52 root@cp600:/home/carl # netselect cygwin.osuosl.org 33 64.50.236.52 root@cp600:/home/carl # grep osuosl mirrors.lst ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org/pub/cygwin;cygwin.osuosl.org;North America;Oregon http://cygwin.osuosl.org;cygwin.osuosl.org;North America;Oregon http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/netselect ^Carl K -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/