From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 02:31:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9179106566C for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (unknown [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F6C88FC0C for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 90907 invoked by uid 89); 18 Mar 2009 02:36:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by v6.ibctech.ca with ESMTPA; 18 Mar 2009 02:36:30 -0000 Message-ID: <49C05D02.80703@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:31:30 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: <25F15A6A-6A95-4500-9831-9021A5102450@charter.net> <20090317191354.4c98b2de@sbcglobal.net> <49C040C9.3090107@ibctech.ca> <89C4FE48-2536-44A9-B777-F82F03A92FC9@charter.net> <49C05103.2000709@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Physical location of cvsup servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:31:46 -0000 Charles Howse wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> What do you want to achieve? fastest_cvsup will tell you addressing of >> the servers. You will have to contact those responsible for the IPs to >> see where they are located to ensure any form of accuracy regarding >> geo-location. > > Mainly, it's curiosity. I know-fer-a-fact I saw a list of physical > locations back when 4.x was the latest release. Probably been deleted. > > fastest_cvsup usually tells me #17 is fastest, but it times out a lot, I > mean A LOT, from here. Fastest, (in this case) != most reliable. Can you produce the output of fastest_cvsup, include the top two results (add #17 if it isn't included), and then provide the output of a traceroute to #17? Perhaps you have a faulty asymmetric path to 17... It is important to know that just because a server may be literally located at the building across the street, it doesn't mean that you are guaranteed a path that may not cross the country (and in some situations, across an ocean) and back. I don't know where you are located, but generally, I've found cvsup8 to be extremely quick (in terms of latency) and very reliable for a number of years. Steve