Hi -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 On 8/25/09, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote: > Am 26.08.2009 um 00:13 schrieb Lanny Marcus: <snip> >>> Don't you have peering-points somewhere? >>> Sorry for hijacking this thread... >> Rainer: I don't think your reply is OT or hijacking. Good point. I >> suspect that in the EU, there is a lot of peering between countries, >> but here in SA, I don't think so. > > I suspected that. > To illustrate, this: > http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/pics/ascore-ipv > 4-ipv6.200903_poster.pdf > is the map I was looking for. Cool. I downloaded that 4.3 MB file. I suspect we could peer with Panama. I believe like Colombia, they are also quite advanced with regard to telecommunications, and it's close. The city I live in (Cali) is actually much closer to Miami, Florida than Los Angeles, California is. And maybe we could peer with Peru, but that's a long way to our South. ---- 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). Only traceroute can give you a clue if a node is local or not. And even then there is a question of available bandwith.... Hans ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.