On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:11:51 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 17:46, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > > Thx for the tip. When I was comming back from the university, I had a > > few extra ideas for both input and output for this script and this was > > one of them (but I forgot to write them down , so I forgot almost > > everything :D ) > > OK. The script is ready. And I didnt like the output I had... Checking > all the http mirrors listed in the mirror list in fedora.redhat.com , > the results were amazing. > A huge part of the mirrors failed to have the updates for x86_64 and a > few failed to have the updates for i386. This can be eiter a simple > timeout or the file itself didnt exist and then the mirror was > considered incomplete. Anyway you can produce some sort of output that captures these mirror by mirror errors? The idea being...can this tool not only be a tool for end-users looking for good mirrors...but also a tool that mirror admins can use as a way to find and correct problems. -jef
