Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:35:43 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: mit@dreamlabs.com, <freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211202330230.1833-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3DDB4505.3085.B883B3F9@localhost>
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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
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