- From: Justin Chapweske <justin@chapweske.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:58:00 -0600
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, www-talk@w3.org
I agree with Mark. In practice, IP->loc databases work quite well, and usually latency and/or hop count is all you really need to pick a good mirror. Btw, Mark, I love your site - especially your cacheability engine. Mark Nottingham wrote: >>Traditionally mirrors provide a reference to their geographic >>location. While by no means a guarantee to improved transfer >>speeds, this is a useful reference, especially for clients that >>wish to use a single source for data transfers (as opposed >>to parallel downloads). > > > I disagree; there are many, many factors to take into account when > selecting a mirror; geographic location is quite low on the list, and can > be found through other means in any case (see RFC1876). -- Justin Chapweske, Onion Networks http://onionnetworks.com/
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