Excellent little utility... however closer network-wise is often significantly different than closer geographically, for instance California is likely a lot closer to Peru than Chile is (as an extreme example), if you go by the packets fly instead of by the crow flies... Also when a closer server is overloaded you will get a download quicker from a more distant server (regardless of how you define "closer"). So a good balancing algorithm really shouldn't care about geographic distance but traceroute hops and ping times and server loads...
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > See: http://maxmind.com/geoip/ > > If someone wants a little project, it shouldn't be too hard to integrate > this into the existing closer.cgi script. > > Joshua. > >
