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

That is pretty good. I live in a town with a number of different ISP's. I work for one, and have a friend that hosts my web site at another ISP. just accross town ( 3-4 miles ) and it is 23 hops to get to my server from where I work. Now that sucks!!! Jim Lucas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frappy John" <frappyjohn@gulfbridge.net> To: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >