Re: finding the closest mirror

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:28:28AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I think this assumption may actually be pretty unsafe - I think that > 'remote' places tend to be linked directly to the US, rather than to the > geographically-near neighbors. This definitely applies for .il (Turkey, > the 2nd on the list, will be 10x slower than the US for me), but I believe > it applies for most of the non-US world (Europe may also be closely > interlinked, so maybe non-US non-Euro). well, regardless, until someone builds a tool that can provide the network distance from an ip address to each of our mirrors, using geography is probably the best thing we can do. hopefully people in countries that aren't connected with their neighbors realize this and will pick a more appropriate mirror on their own. > It did detect my country code and did put il.php.net as the top choice, so > it would have still worked for me :) right, as long as we've got mirrors in the countries (and the geoip database has the right country info for your ip), we're okay. jim