Re: finding the closest mirror

> if people could give > http://master.php.net/~jimw/closest-mirror.php a > try to see if it gives a reasonable sorting of the mirrors for them, > furthest away at the bottom), i'd appreciate it. the closest mirrors > should be at the top of the list. > > this is based on the geoip database from maxmind. (i've made a pure-php > version of the c library to access that database.) > > obviously this is just geographic closeness. i think it is safe to > assume that the places where geographic closeness does not reasonably > correlate with network closeness are more rare than those where it does. > > you can also check what mirror would be returned for various country > codes by add '?cc=MM' to the end, or for a specific ip by adding > '?ip=195.34.60.16'. x-forwarded-for: '62.77.193.207' ip: '62.77.193.207' country code: EU couldn't find latitude and longitude for EU This does not seem to be good for me... BTW my IP is dinamic, from a local ISP, named VNet (part of the international Vivendi). Goba