Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:03:49 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <20020108040349.GA433@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10201071908100.29300-100000@misery.sdf.com> References: <20020107222217.GI41572@wjv.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10201071908100.29300-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:10:27PM -0800, Tom Samplonius thus spoke: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:26:05PM -0500, Blake Crosby thus spoke: > > > > > I have no gripe against any one country, there are plenty of > > > mirrors for other countries (including 3 for the usa). I dont see > > > why visitors don't use the mirror for their country, this way, > > > they are forced to. > > > > Well the 'country' we are all living in is commonly called planet > > Earth. I find that for many things I can get data from a European > > site faster than a US site. This is of course dependant upon the > ... > US and Canada are on the same continent though. > Mirrors should probably be setup on a continental basis, rather > than a courtry basis. Not neccesarily. The backbone I'm on has terabit links to Europe and some place in Europe are faater to get to than NA link on slower connections such as running only on T1s or T3s. Close made a lot of sense in the early days when much was on leased 56K lines and dialup - but with global links the only criterion should be how fast you can get ot the other site. Some of that will depend entirely on the peering provisions of your provider and the links they use to get onto the major backbones. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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