On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, michael dolan wrote: > Yeah (I live a block away from LSU and they were really bad), but isn't > this generally true? When given a list of servers you can download a > file from, shouldn't you choose the one closest to you? In a perfect > world, you would choose the fastest or least busy, but without that kind > of information...
Generally yes. Most of the time closer proximity means less hops, less latency, and generally a "better" path. This says nothing about the speed of the links connecting the networks though. This is how BGP works... If LSU is having DNS performance problems, then network speed may have nothing to do with it. IE you might be in the same room with a gig connection to their DNS box, but if their DNS sucks, it's still gonna be slow. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
