From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 17:52:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379E816A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:52:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr (smtp9.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1FF43D46 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:52:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0907.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B73451C00173 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:52:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0907.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 92E131C00163 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:52:30 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20050414175230601.92E131C00163@mwinf0907.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:52:22 +0200 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1332577426.20050414195222@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:52:32 -0000 N. Raghavendra writes: > Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through > US or European networks. Why?? > A `whois' lookup for 208.192.183.149, says that the address belongs to > UUNET Technologies, Inc., VA, US. The address 134.159.128.42 belongs > to Reach Networks HK Ltd, Hong Kong. As I understand it, this means > that traffic from Allahabad goes to the US, and then to Hong Kong, > before it reaches Bombay. The IT equivalent of the proverbial slow boat to China. At least most of the world's secret services get a peak at all Indian traffic, I guess. > Therefore, the geographical proximity of two hosts within India does > not imply their proximity on the Internet. Is digging a ditch and laying fiber between them out of the question? > In addition to such routing troubles, most Indian sites suffer from > severe bandwidth paucity. Because it doesn't exist, or because telecoms and ISPs are gouging them with their pricing? -- Anthony