J.Witvliet@MINDEF.NL schrieb:
Afaik it is impossible to deduce from the URL if one node is located nearby or far away.
Yeah. That was really just an illustration.
Eventhough as i live in europe, i can register and use a japanese URL.
Secondly, i fond out that ISP do funny tricks with routing: My connection to my next-door-neighbour goes via a transcient node in New-York (high latency).
Only traceroute can give you a clue if a node is local or not.
Yes, that and may some BPG looking-glass. I'm not a routing expert, but AFAIK, you do peering mostly at peering-locations ("meeting-rooms", internet-exchanges). At least, that's what we do here in Europe. You have a fast leased line to such a peering-location and then you can "peer" with everybody you like and have a low hop-count to that ISP.
And even then there is a question of available bandwith....
Well, peering should improve bandwidth and latency. Because local bandwidth should be cheaper to get than international bandwidth.
Rainer