Re: autodetect mirrors

See /include/mirrors.inc - there is an array... There's usually no meaning for 'close' because almost all the countries tend to route outside-country traffic in such a way that it's usually faster to simply go to the main site (if it is indeed in north america like i think it is) You should remember that closest geographically doesn't mean closest networkwise... For instance, i live in israel, but when I go to a UK site, I do Israel -> NY -> UK -> NY -> Israel (and not directly to Europe which is FAR closer to ASIA than the USA as you know) - so it really depends on the ISPs. It's too much of a headache, I think. Most well established countries (i.e. countries where there will be many PHP users) do have a mirror, and the little ones who don't can use the main site, and you're still reducing *tons* of weight from the main server, IMHO. On Tue, 21 May 2002, Adolfo Garcia Veytia wrote: > At 21:52 5/21/2002 +0300, you wrote: > > >Why? it is a redirection service from the main php.net site to the php.net > >mirrors. If someone got to a mirror, it's because he knows about it... > > > You're right, so i suppose there would be no need for > the geoip db to be installed on the mirrors then. The > only thing that we should think about is those countries > that do not have mirrors... perhaps build an array of > all countries with their closest mirror? > > > > > -- 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 !!!"