From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 04:15:33 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 33BFA16A4CF for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:15:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from proxy.ddcom.co.jp (proxy.ddcom.co.jp [211.121.191.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1140343D41 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:15:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rees@ddcom.co.jp) Received: (qmail 25881 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2005 04:27:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO matthew) (10.10.10.11) by mail.ddcom.local with SMTP; 15 Apr 2005 04:27:47 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:15:32 +0900 From: Joel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1332577426.20050414195222@wanadoo.fr> References: <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in> <1332577426.20050414195222@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: <20050415104746.E894.REES@ddcom.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.06 Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:15:33 -0000 > > 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? Quite possibly so. Think about the population density. Digging a ditch any real distance is liable to require a lot of political involvement. A one kilometer ditch is liable to cross the land of close to a thousand people, more, perhaps, if there are large apartments or multiple-owner complexes in the path. Anyway, you can't just assume things are the same all over. -- Joel Rees digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** **