Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

[Yavor Doganov]

Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> It's basically just a few lines that interface between the mirmon
> data and GeoIP, as I recall.

Hmm, this is wrong, I believe.  The geographically closest mirror is
not necessarily the fastest one.  In fact with my disgusting
monopolist provider it never is.  Connecting to ftpmirror.gnu.org
redirects to a Greek mirror, which is indeed closest (closer than the
Ukrainian one).  But it's not the fastest, I think.

Furthermore, concrete URLs don't appear to work, e.g.

$ LC_ALL=C wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz
--00:00:54--  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz
           => `m4-1.4.12.tar.gz.2'
Resolving ftp.gnu.org... 140.186.70.20
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org|140.186.70.20|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!

$ LC_ALL=C wget ftp://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz
--00:07:02--  ftp://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12.tar.gz
           => `m4-1.4.12.tar.gz.3'
Resolving ftpmirror.gnu.org... 142.132.30.225
Connecting to ftpmirror.gnu.org|142.132.30.225|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /gnu/m4 ... 
No such directory `gnu/m4'.