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[John]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:41:45 +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>Any notion of a automated mirror choose isd broken, unless it 
>>understands all the Internet topology.
> 
> 
> Choosing a random mirror is pointless.  But indeed choosing a mirror based
> on network proximity is easily possible and indeed useful, but better
> achieved at the DNS stage a la SuperSparrow (http://www.supersparrow.org/).
> 
> Pete
> 
For the benefit to users, it might as well be random. Still it can't 
tell what's financially beneficial to users: how does it know whether to 
prefer WAIX


Its choice for me is California, and that doesn't look at all good to 
me: take you world globe out and see where California is from Perth, 
Western Australia.