Chris Sawtell wrote: >On Monday 27 November 2006 22:14, Wesley Parish wrote: >> Does anyone know if there are any such in New Zealand? >http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/distfiles/ > >But take care, paradise/telstraclear either have the routing faulty and >route via Los Angeles so you have to pay international even though the >archive is in NZ, or the archive is actually in the US. It's impossible >to tell from the traceroute. Also the USA gentoo mirror at Oregon State >University is at least 3 times faster. > This is a fault of Telstra's for not routing at APE or WIX, citylink does not want to pay for the international data used by Telstra due to the fact they dont peer.There are a number of methods for routing traffic like this. I could get into some specifics if you were interested. I can assure you they have a New Zealand mirror.
View Below Traceroute. traceroute to linux.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 ######## (######) 0.581 ms 0.498 ms 0.480 ms 2 ######## (######) 0.616 ms 0.654 ms 1.374 ms 3 60.234.9.81 (60.234.9.81) 0.463 ms 0.430 ms 0.413 ms 4 60.234.9.21 (60.234.9.21) 0.913 ms 1.238 ms 0.817 ms 5 anycast.ape.net.nz (192.203.154.5) 0.797 ms 1.269 ms 1.193 ms 6 ftp.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9) 1.306 ms 1.666 ms 1.875 ms -- Ben Devine
