> On 11 Mar 2017, at 02:08, Arnaud <[email protected]> wrote: > > Amazingly, requests to google go directly from Vietnam to the > States. Which explains why they are still fast when everything else is > slow, and which makes me wonder if google has private undersea cables.
It's far more likely that Google has a server in Vietnam, and the geoip database is using the location of the corporate office, not the location of the server. (There's no money in location-based advertising to servers, so no-one cares if the geoip is accurate.) T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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