Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:52:22 +0200 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? Message-ID: <1332577426.20050414195222@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in> References: <20050414071958.23388.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <425E32A2.1080809@gmail.com> <938568187.20050414143549@wanadoo.fr> <16990.42837.393969.612970@riemann.mri.ernet.in>
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N. Raghavendra writes: > Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through > US or European networks. Why?? > A `whois' lookup for 208.192.183.149, says that the address belongs to > UUNET Technologies, Inc., VA, US. The address 134.159.128.42 belongs > to Reach Networks HK Ltd, Hong Kong. As I understand it, this means > that traffic from Allahabad goes to the US, and then to Hong Kong, > before it reaches Bombay. The IT equivalent of the proverbial slow boat to China. At least most of the world's secret services get a peak at all Indian traffic, I guess. > Therefore, the geographical proximity of two hosts within India does > not imply their proximity on the Internet. Is digging a ditch and laying fiber between them out of the question? > In addition to such routing troubles, most Indian sites suffer from > severe bandwidth paucity. Because it doesn't exist, or because telecoms and ISPs are gouging them with their pricing? -- Anthony
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