On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:52, Greg Wallace wrote:
I am running this from Anchorage Alaska. I have the following "information sources" in the drop-down list.
... host list ...
Could someone tell me which of these would be closest for me? Will ftp.suse.com automatically find the closest one for me? There is a fiber optic cable running down to the upper West Coast, so I would think a site in that area would be best. There is a list out on www.suse.com and I tried entering a few of the ones listed for the West Coast from that list, but I'm not sure I was entering the information correctly. I never had any luck with any I tried. Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Greg Wallace
On Thursday, August 05, 2004 @ 11:16 PM, Randall R Schultz wrote Greg,
Use the traceroute command to get an idea of how "far" a site is from you. It will show you how many hops (hosts through which packets must be routed) between you and the remote host and the minimum, average and maximum time required for a packet round trip.
I tried several of the sites you listed, and while the hop count varied widely, the round-trip times were much closer together, and were all in the 200 millisecond range. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Randall Schulz
I have a tool that does a trace of the number of stops along the way between where you are and the destination. Here's what I get for the various sites listed in YaST -- ftp.leo.org -- 24 hops ftp.gwdg.de -- 19 hops ftp.suse.com -- 16 hops ftp.sunet.se -- 20 hops ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de -- 29 hops gd.tuwien.ac.at -- 20 hops ftp.suselinux.hu -- 21 hops fr.rpmfind.net -- 25 hops Looks like ftp.suse.com is the best of this group for me. It did seem to work pretty fast for me. Not sure where it's located. Thanks, Greg Wallace