From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 8 17:18:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from lemon.national.com.au (lemon.national.com.au [203.57.241.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798A37B41D for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by lemon.national.com.au (Postfix, from userid 5) id AB6899F81A; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:18:36 +1100 (EST) Received: from unknown(10.25.154.32) by lemon.national.com.au via csmap (V4.1) id srcAAAaBayHP; Wed, 9 Jan 02 12:18:36 +1100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by peppermint.national.com.au (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id MAA18103; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:18:24 +1100 (EST) Received: from webjump.national.com.au(164.53.27.38) via SMTP by peppermint, id smtpdAAAhZaawJ; Wed Jan 9 12:18:17 2002 Received: (from nconedd@localhost) by webjump.national.com.au (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id g091IE819562; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:18:14 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:18:14 +1100 From: Enno Davids To: Blake Crosby Cc: Tom Samplonius , isp-webhosting@isp-webhosting.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <20020109121814.E13438@webjump.national.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dev@samurai.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:00:46AM -0500 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 On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:00:46AM -0500, Blake Crosby wrote: |True.. I don't have a problem with Americans visiting the site. I have a |problem with Japan being the 4th active country (.ca,.com, .net [in that |order), Germany being the 5th and the UK being the 6th. | |Currently, my policy is the following: | |if you are NOT .ca .com .net .org. .edu, you can't access the mirror. |Granted that doesn't restrict everyone.. it does, however, restrict users |who I know with 99% certainty they aren't in Canada. While I can see some small argument for your position, isn't part of deal for being a mirror also to be available when the main site is down. If clients from far away get better service from you than their closest mirror, then what is the argument against their using your site? (Their mirror may be overloaded and once again as a mirror you're there to share the load no?) Are you paying a premium for their bandwidth compared to (more) local traffic? What is the driver here? Not sure I see the point of advertising you as a mirror when you're only prepared to serve a small percentage of the world's population. Not sure I see the utility of a server that doesn't want to serve.... (but it does make a nice existentialist dilemma!) Enno. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message