Cristopher Daniluk writes:
> How do you prevent some guy in North Dakota from getting a webserver in New
> Zealand?
I'm not going to worry about it. This is just to fetch the page of
mirrors. Once he's got the list of mirrors, he will, if he's smart,
choose a mirror closer to him. Yes, we could in theory automate this,
but that presumes somebody has actually created an accurate mapping of
IP addresses to country. Dan's got the beginning of a list, but it's
just a beginning. I might go ahead and use it, since it's better than
nothing.
And anyway, country is only a rough guide. What you'd *really* like
to do is have a bit of code running on each mirror which measures a
combination of hops and round-trip time. Then you'd enter their
class-C network into a table that says "Send them to this mirror".
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