Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:45:14 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, mit@dreamlabs.com, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror Message-ID: <20021120134514.GG388@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211202330230.1833-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> References: <3DDB4505.3085.B883B3F9@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211202330230.1833-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
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--FeAIMMcddNRN4P4/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:35:43PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dan Langille wrote: >=20 > > My guess: IP address. If you know the IP address, you can figure out > > what country it "belongs". This information is avaialable via > > "whois". >=20 > Simon Horman (Horms) gave a paper on doing this at LCA 2001. It was quite > interesting. "Globally Distributed Content". He's a smart guy :-) >=20 >=20 > If we go down this track it might make sense to apply it to www.freebsd.o= rg > but i don't think it'd want to be deployed on every mirror site as that t= akes > away the user choice to select a mirror and use it (if that mirror is then > going to transparently redirect..). And I even wonder about www.FreeBSD.org itself; sometimes one may *want* to use the master server, e.g. for CVSweb access. Of course, this is easily solved by adding a DNS alias named www.us.FreeBSD.org or something like that, and only redirecting requests targeted at www.FreeBSD.org, so we can still use http://www.us.FreeBSD.org/ if we so desire. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 No language can express every thought unambiguously, least of all this one. --FeAIMMcddNRN4P4/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE925Hq7Ri2jRYZRVMRAgUwAKCsrgWU5POhnx2EEdeZhyK5T54QOgCgwYDc IDTCaFyCMbbvAWZxmYtamNM= =D6hT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FeAIMMcddNRN4P4/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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