From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 8 17:15:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jhs.muc.de (jhs.muc.de [193.149.49.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BB637B41B for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from park.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhs.muc.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g08NXLn49145; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:33:21 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200201082333.g08NXLn49145@jhs.muc.de> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: bv@wjv.com Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Vermillion of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 23:03:49 EST." <20020108040349.GA433@wjv.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:33:21 +0100 From: Julian Stacey 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 Bill Vermillion wrote: > > 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. Yes, I've been wondering for a year or 2 now when someone might want to enhance `fetch` to take into account accumulated & current net heurisitics, to make sensible local decisions about where to try first to fetch source distfiles/ for the stuff in /usr/ports/ I'm too busy/lazy to do it myself, but if someone feels the urge ... :-) Julian J.Stacey Munich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message