Re: the real problem with the ip-to-country DB / phpweb

I suspected the ip-to-country code was the guilty party. I notice that you have comitted a fix; are you confident that this will work if I turn on rsync on www.php.net again? If so, just let me know and I'll make it happen :) --Wez. On Sun, 25 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > >>Divyank, can you please look at this ASAP? We are highly in need of a > >>correct country detection database (and index) right now, as > >>we redirect > >>guys to mirror sites. > > > > I am looking at it right away. Will get back with a fix in a while. > > Thanks. I have checked some other parts of the DB, and this error seems > to be a very common thing in the DB. And this causes that most of the > IPs are not found in the indexed search. Very are not going to drop the > index as linear searching in 1.5MB data is not doable. In fact I am > going to add more code to optimize search based on the index. > > That would not help alone, as the index is based on the assumption, that > the ranges are unique and are in incremental order. And this is > absolutely not the case with the current DB. > > Goba > > >