On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:39 AM, J.Witvliet@mindef.nl wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrors and Adjacent country groups
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Afaik it is impossible to deduce from the URL if one node is located nearby or far away. 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).
To your next door neighbor? Terrible!
Only traceroute can give you a clue if a node is local or not. And even then there is a question of available bandwith....
Agreed