packages.macports.org ping time

[Jeremy Lavergne]

Any US east coast devs: does the French mirror get used often for your archive downloads?



From Boston, MA lil.fr.packages.macports.org responds faster to pings than packages.macports.org. Since MacPorts uses ping time to calculate where to make its initial requests from, we might be sending people across the ocean when it isn't for any actual benefit.

After spotting the french mirror being used, my initial check saw these times (ping, 5 samples each):
average lil.fr.macports.org response: 102.6ms
average packages.macports.org response: 123.8ms

And then here's the route I was taking (mtr, 20 samples):
Tue Jan  1 23:40:43 2013
                                       Packets               Pings
 Host                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
...
 4. tge0-1-0-0.core1.sbo.ma.rcn.net   0.0%    21   10.5  13.6   5.5  53.4  10.6
 5. tge0-0-0-1.core1.nyw.ny.rcn.net   0.0%    21   22.3  24.7  10.8  70.0  15.9
 6. 207.172.15.67                     0.0%    21   22.9  21.4  12.4  43.7   8.5
 7. 198.32.160.29                     0.0%    21   35.3  25.0  11.6  54.6  12.8
 8. xe-7-2-0.pao10.ip4.tinet.net      0.0%    21  110.4 106.5  83.8 173.5  21.7
 9. internap-gw.ip4.tinet.net         0.0%    21   87.7  95.9  82.2 144.0  15.5
10. border2.te8-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap  0.0%    21  100.2  92.6  82.5 111.9   7.9
11. ???
12. ???
13. ???
14. packages.macports.org             0.0%    20   91.5  90.0  83.8  98.6   4.0