On 8/23/09, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
CentOS has developed our own mirrorlist and isolist applications and inside this application, we have some countries that we shift to other countries and we also have some country groups defined.
The purpose of these groupings is to have adjacent countries grouped together for applications like fastest mirror and others.
I will put here what we currently have and ask the community to vet the list for us to make it better.
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If anything looks bad, especially for people who are in the countries and can tell us which ones are logically near (via the network) and not necessarily physically near, please reply to this thread and lets see if we can make the mirror network better.
Thanks,
Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, Colombia, South America. Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would be via Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. So, for us, in Colombia, it is much better to have a Mirror site in South Florida or the S.E. USA, if possible; since I do not believe there is one in Colombia. The fact that Colombia is adjacent to Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, etc., would make a Mirror in one of those countries faster, *if* we had a direct route on the Internet to them, but, we don't. I suspect for most countries in Latin America, this would be the same, since Latin America is so strongly connected to Miami, "the capital" of Latin America. Lanny