From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 14: 8:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.quadrant.net (indigo.quadrant.net [207.195.92.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FA937B417 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (56K76.quadrant.net [207.195.92.76]) by indigo.quadrant.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA29495 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:08:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: "FreeBSD" Subject: Restricting Users Geographically Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:09:04 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually location of origin isn't as important as # of hops and ping times. If everyone used the mirrors closest to them in terms of routing (least number of hops) then the overall traffic on the internet would be less and performance would be improved as a whole. - Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message