Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:16:17 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? Message-ID: <425EAC69.7020307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in> References: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> <938568187.20050414143549@wanadoo.fr> <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in>
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N. Raghavendra wrote: >At 2005-04-14T14:35:49+02:00, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through >US or European networks. > I beg to differ. Tracing route to in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 16 ms 18 ms 22 ms 59.93.160.1 2 39 ms 39 ms 42 ms 218.248.253.89 3 44 ms 38 ms 40 ms 218.248.249.33 4 38 ms 40 ms 45 ms 218.248.255.5 5 59 ms 48 ms 42 ms 218.248.255.6 6 52 ms 55 ms 69 ms 203.200.145.202 7 105 ms 103 ms 102 ms ekm-mum-2nd-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2.202 ] 8 93 ms 100 ms 91 ms lvsb-vsb-IDC-1st-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54. 2.10] 9 92 ms 88 ms 90 ms 203.199.112.46.static.vsnl.net.in [203.199.112.4 6] 10 102 ms 91 ms 89 ms fe0-1.sar1.in.yahoo.com [203.199.124.154] 11 95 ms 95 ms 104 ms in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47] Trace complete. This completely remains inside India. Unless you purposefully introduce some US/EU intervention in the routing tables, it works withut problems. >I think that would be the case also with a FreeBSD mirror in India. >This could be one reason why there are no such mirrors. Another could >be the fact that very few Indians use UNIX, or its clones --- and >those who do mostly use GNU/Linux. > > Yeh the second one is a point. I already pointed to it. > > >There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and >GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. > > I didnt find any. :-( However as I pointed earlier I am very happy to burn the CDs and sip them out for a nominal charge. Regards S.
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