From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 01:40:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30E6106566C for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (unknown [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D9F88FC1A for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 84999 invoked by uid 89); 18 Mar 2009 01:45:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.114?) (steve@ibctech.ca@::ffff:208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with ESMTPA; 18 Mar 2009 01:45:18 -0000 Message-ID: <49C05103.2000709@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:40:19 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: <25F15A6A-6A95-4500-9831-9021A5102450@charter.net> <20090317191354.4c98b2de@sbcglobal.net> <49C040C9.3090107@ibctech.ca> <89C4FE48-2536-44A9-B777-F82F03A92FC9@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <89C4FE48-2536-44A9-B777-F82F03A92FC9@charter.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Physical location of cvsup servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:35 -0000 Charles Howse wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Don Read wrote: >>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0500 Charles Howse said: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Can anyone point me to a link that shows the physical location of the >>>> U.S. cvsup servers? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Not physical, but by wire time: >>> >>> localhost# fastest_cvsup -c us > > Nope...looking for city,state. Unless you can communicate directly with the people who manage the server, that is not an easy task. You will have to consult whois for the routing information, and then, even still the results may be inaccurate, as IP space allocated to someone in Orlando Florida may be using some of their space in Dallas Texas. Neat little tricks such as MPLS could have you make one hop across the country while you think you are still in one local city. What do you want to achieve? fastest_cvsup will tell you addressing of the servers. You will have to contact those responsible for the IPs to see where they are located to ensure any form of accuracy regarding geo-location. Steve