Re: What is happening with php.net ???

Manuel-- That same link http://www.phpclasses.org/mirrors.html?closest thinks I'm in Australia: Your approximate location: City: State: Country: Australia Longitude: 135° East Latitude: 25° South But I'm really in South Florida: 80° West 26.5° North!! (I've got a Covad IP: 68.165.13.xxx) But truth is, geographical coordinates aren't all that important. I've just finished doing traceroutes on the phpclasses mirrors on the east coast. You would think I would connect fastest to Atlanta (14 hops) or Reston (12 hops) or New York (15 hops). Nope. Bloomsburg, Peennsylvania, takes the prize at just 9 hops! --Frappy On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:02 pm, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > On 05/22/2003 10:47 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >> http://www.phpclasses.org/mirrors.html?closest=1 > > > > Except: > > > > Your approximate location: > > City: Middletown > > State: New Jersey > > Country: United States > > > > Longitude: 74.11° West > > Latitude: 40.4° North > > > > > > I'm nowhere NEAR the east coast. I think this has > > to do with the way ISP assign their IP pools, so you > > can't always rely on a user's IP to determine their > > closest location. This page is telling me my closet > > mirror would be New York, where in reality Illinois or > > California would be closer. For that matter, going > > straight up to Edmonton, Canada might be closer for me > > than going to the East coast. > > Usually that is because the ISP did not update its > records, but that is not the generate case. This is based > on NetGeo service that is free. It is still better than a > service that charges you to get this detail of > information, especially because being very rigorous is > not important and at least it correctly guessed the > country which is all that most other free services > provide. > > To learn how to use NetGeo from PHP, here is the solution > that was used: > > http://www.phpclasses.org/netgeoclass