From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 17:46:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6F816A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:46:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1985643D1D for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:46:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so425865rnf for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:46:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FloxZtzctyskvGOTPOoFvmmQwLvqt2T/PqXHT6NFGnu6xxmPfcyr7nY3b/MY8PX8y3wA0IalgmHs1K1qqAcntLFIN81+8Dlpr8wJIlanfuYkQlQgXZUw7bUd7VMnEsnWv05+E+GSdc3Ck6R6mE/C2jDrgKLJsbRzbQMU0onBWLg= Received: by 10.38.65.20 with SMTP id n20mr410587rna; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ([59.93.160.65]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 73sm811238rna.2005.04.14.10.46.29; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <425EAC69.7020307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:16:17 +0530 From: Subhro User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "N. Raghavendra" References: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> <938568187.20050414143549@wanadoo.fr> <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:46:34 -0000 N. Raghavendra wrote: >At 2005-04-14T14:35:49+02:00, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through >US or European networks. > I beg to differ. Tracing route to in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 16 ms 18 ms 22 ms 59.93.160.1 2 39 ms 39 ms 42 ms 218.248.253.89 3 44 ms 38 ms 40 ms 218.248.249.33 4 38 ms 40 ms 45 ms 218.248.255.5 5 59 ms 48 ms 42 ms 218.248.255.6 6 52 ms 55 ms 69 ms 203.200.145.202 7 105 ms 103 ms 102 ms ekm-mum-2nd-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2.202 ] 8 93 ms 100 ms 91 ms lvsb-vsb-IDC-1st-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54. 2.10] 9 92 ms 88 ms 90 ms 203.199.112.46.static.vsnl.net.in [203.199.112.4 6] 10 102 ms 91 ms 89 ms fe0-1.sar1.in.yahoo.com [203.199.124.154] 11 95 ms 95 ms 104 ms in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47] Trace complete. This completely remains inside India. Unless you purposefully introduce some US/EU intervention in the routing tables, it works withut problems. >I think that would be the case also with a FreeBSD mirror in India. >This could be one reason why there are no such mirrors. Another could >be the fact that very few Indians use UNIX, or its clones --- and >those who do mostly use GNU/Linux. > > Yeh the second one is a point. I already pointed to it. > > >There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and >GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. > > I didnt find any. :-( However as I pointed earlier I am very happy to burn the CDs and sip them out for a nominal charge. Regards S.