From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Nov 20 5:36:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A481837B404 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E5143E8A for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAKDZh10013579; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:35:43 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:35:43 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Dan Langille Cc: mit@dreamlabs.com, Subject: Re: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror In-Reply-To: <3DDB4505.3085.B883B3F9@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -104.4, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > My guess: IP address. If you know the IP address, you can figure out > what country it "belongs". This information is avaialable via > "whois". Simon Horman (Horms) gave a paper on doing this at LCA 2001. It was quite interesting. "Globally Distributed Content". He's a smart guy :-) If we go down this track it might make sense to apply it to www.freebsd.org but i don't think it'd want to be deployed on every mirror site as that takes away the user choice to select a mirror and use it (if that mirror is then going to transparently redirect..). regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message