Not sure on the workings of other distros. For Centos, at any one time, the local users will be served by local mirrors and those from neighbouring regions by order of priority.
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os&cc=my http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os&cc=my http://mirror-status.centos.org/#my Try substituting the suffix of the first two links I provided above from Malaysian country codes to something else, Indonesian 'id' for example. You'll see that Malaysian mirrors still serves Indonesian users but at a lower priority. I do notice that traffic does comes from neighbouring regions, but at a lower percentage except China :-P Of course, you can always filter China by IP address blocks. I'd recommend this - http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html >From the example above, it is not impossible to also filter other countries as well. Regards On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < [email protected]> wrote: > Why don't we load balance all Malaysia Mirror? So not one mirror will > burden with it? > > http://www.mirrorbrain.org/ > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgPNoA4D83E > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > More reason why ISP should support local mirrors. > > > > > http://www.zdnetasia.com/malaysia-s-broadband-access-most-expensive-in-apac-62201063.htm > > > > Thanks Azrul Hasni for the link. > > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Garfield WTF <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sad to see that they still not yet add Debian into the server yet. > >> > >> By the way, those who are currently using Debian, and usually using the > US > >> mirror, you can now use this mirror. > >> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
