[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region
Linux Advocate
linuxhousedn at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 24 06:33:21 UTC 2009
> John R Pierce wrote:
> > fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia
> > IP per the email headres...
> >
> > $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy
> > [Querying whois.apnic.net]
> > [whois.apnic.net]
> > % [whois.apnic.net node-2]
> > % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
> >
> > inetnum: 60.48.0.0 - 60.54.255.255
> > netname: XDSLSTREAMYX
> > descr: Telekom Malaysia Berhad
> > descr: Network Strategy
> > descr: Wisma Telekom
> > descr: Jalan Pantai Baru
> > descr: 50672 Kuala Lumpur
> > country: MY
> >
>
> For the record on this one, it seems that our version of the geoip
> database does not do a proper lookup for IP addresses in the 60.50.50.50
> (as an example IP of that range).
>
> What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it
> passes a list of high bandwidth machines.
>
> I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I
> can get a better result.
>
johny, are u the maintainer for the geo-ip database?
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