find-mirror - Find the best mirror in a list of mirrors.

find-mirror is a utilily to extract and rank addresses and urls by reachability and data rate. It is meant to be used when presented with a list of links to mirrors, ftp sites, etc.

You can download it here.

Documentation can be found here.

• Uses a variety of methods to rank the mirrors.
• Handles either addresses or full urls.
• Can be used to extract addresses or full urls from arbitrary text.

1. Basic usage (input can be any arbitrary text):

       $ find-mirror  mirrors.html
       $ find-mirror  list1.dat list2.dat
       $ find-mirror < mirrors.txt
   

2. Piped from lynx or wget:

       $ wget -O- http://foo.com/mirrors/ | find-mirror
   

3. In parallel using the -j option (think `GNU make'):

       $ find-mirror -j 4  mirrors.html
   

4. Just extract urls, don't contact them:

       $ find-mirror --extract  < mirrors.html
   

5. Use different methods to rank the mirrors (native ping, echo response, connection establishment):

       $ find-mirror --ping    < mirrors.html
       $ find-mirror --echo    < mirrors.html
       $ find-mirror --connect < mirrors.html
       $ find-mirror --http    < mirrors.html
   

6. Match anything that looks like a hostname (instead of full urls):

       $ find-mirror --relaxed  < mirrors.html
   

7. Match only .org and .edu domains:

       $ find-mirror --domains='org,edu' < mirrors.html
   

8. Match only Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, USA domains:

       $ find-mirror --domains='(pa,nj,ny)\.us' < mirrors.html
   

9. Match against a custom pattern:

       $ find-mirror --pattern='(ftp(\.[[:alnum:]-]+)+\.kernel.org)' < mirrors.html