Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:21:01 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <008801c1980c$a58a5360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGCEBODHAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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Scott writes: > If everyone used the mirrors closest to them > in terms of routing (least number of hops) then > the overall traffic on the internet would be > less and performance would be improved as a whole. There aren't enough systems mirrored in the world for this to make any dent in Internet traffic. Additionally, a lot of traffic is not one-way; e-mail is significant, for example, and you can't send e-mail to mirrors (and even if you could, you'd only be deferring the inevitable). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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