On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:39 AM, <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote: > -----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 <snip> > 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