[CentOS-mirror] Geolocation Question

[Paul Stewart]

Ok - thanks for that info... appreciate it.

Cheers,

Paul


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[mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:51 AM
To: centos-mirror at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Geolocation Question

On 05/23/2012 04:35 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> We operate a mirror in Canada currently (centos.mirror.nexicom.net).
My question is in regards to geolocation - does the CentOS mirror
network only send us traffic from only Canada in theory?  I haven't ran
the stats in a long time to see where our CentOS mirror traffic is
coming from....
>
> Our network is quite capable of handling lots of US traffic for 
> example and if there is a "flag" to be turned on to allow it then 
> please do so... our network map is located at 
> http://netops.nexicom.net/

No, it does not "ONLY" send traffic from Canada.

We have an algorithm that looks for "close" countries too ... BUT ...
"close" countries should only get used to fill out the mirrorlist to 20.

Since we have way more mirrors than 20 in the US mirror list, there
should be no US traffic to your mirror ... but it is possible that you
might be listed in a less populated (by mirrors) country code.

That is only speaking of our mirrorlist program ... we do not control
rsyncs if you offer that, since those are controlled by the person
setting up the rsync.