From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 8 20:55:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from infiniteloop.ca (infiniteloop.ca [216.126.86.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2D037B416 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by infiniteloop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2BE230; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:55:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from mia.samurai.com (xtreme9-251.aci.on.ca [209.50.83.251]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by infiniteloop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8480B20F; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:55:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020108234616.02a93008@mailbox.samurai.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 23:54:29 -0500 To: Enno Davids From: Blake Crosby Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Cc: Tom Samplonius , isp-webhosting@isp-webhosting.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020109121814.E13438@webjump.national.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:18 PM 2002/01/09 +1100, Enno Davids wrote: >Not sure I see the point of advertising you as a mirror when you're only >prepared to serve a small percentage of the world's population. Not sure I >see the utility of a server that doesn't want to serve.... (but it does >make a nice existentialist dilemma!) Perhaps its more of a personal choice.. hmm The thing that bothers me is this...My webserver has a finite of resources. When someone, say, from Japan (which there are three mirrors for) access the mirror, they are using resources for potential Canadians to use. I want to contribute to the project, but I cannot afford hundreds of dollars a month to keep the mirror up - so I bandwidth limited traffic. So not only are server resources being taxed by non Candians, bandwidth is as well. This way, Canadians have exclusive access to the mirror. (well anyone with a .com .net .org .edu domain name as well). The non canadians can use one of the many mirrors in the USA or their home country. Blake Crosby dev@samurai.com http://www.blakecrosby.com "It's good to see that you haven't lost your talent for saying something so completely outrageously false it defies any possible retort." - Mike Hodnett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message