Re: autodetect mirrors

It's faster. DNS goes and looks up your IP address with remote DNS servers: Say your IP is 1.2.3.4 it goes to the nameserver authoritative for 1.in-addr.arpa and asks who is responsible for 2.1.in-addr.arpa and then asks the auth for 2.1.in-addr.arpa who is... up to 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa instead, geoip queries a local file, just like the PHP website does when reading user contributed notes, for instance. (and I assume that it's most probably cached into memory, cause it's an apache module. it's also much simpler to program as you have an HTTP variable that you can simply pull by stating it's name in PHP, perhaps even directly in: header("Location: http://$VARNAME.php.net"); don't you think? :) On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > For sure it is far more reliable than the current method, which appears to > > be DNS. > > > > That's of course only my opinion. :) > > Can this method cope in speed with DNS lookups? > > Goba > > -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are." Sign that you downloaded Linux from a bad source: "My compiler keeps hanging on NSABackdoor.h !!!"