[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

Mon Aug 24 06:33:21 UTC 2009
Linux Advocate <linuxhousedn at yahoo.com>

> John R Pierce wrote:
> > fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia 
> > IP per the email headres...
> > 
> > $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy
> > [Querying whois.apnic.net]
> > [whois.apnic.net]
> > % [whois.apnic.net node-2]
> > % Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
> > 
> > inetnum:      60.48.0.0 -  60.54.255.255
> > netname:      XDSLSTREAMYX
> > descr:        Telekom Malaysia Berhad
> > descr:        Network Strategy
> > descr:        Wisma Telekom
> > descr:        Jalan Pantai Baru
> > descr:        50672 Kuala Lumpur
> > country:      MY
> > 
> 
> For the record on this one, it seems that our version of the geoip
> database does not do a proper lookup for IP addresses in the 60.50.50.50
> (as an example IP of that range).
> 
> What I get is unknown (with our current version).  When unknown, it
> passes a list of high bandwidth machines.
> 
> I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I
> can get a better result.
> 

johny, are u the maintainer for the geo-ip database?