On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Damian Menscher wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > >>Ryan Moore wrote: > >>>Damian Menscher wrote: > >>> > >>>>What do you get when you do "host database.clamav.net" ? > >>>> > >>>Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location? > >>> > >>Actually, for database.clamav.net, the answer is yes. > >>Or to be specific, based on your IP address. > >>It's an effort to balance mirror load among mirrors. > > > >Ok, so we've established that it's supposed to figure out your region > >based on your IP, and we've established that for several of us it is > >failing. Why? Anyone know how that was set up? > > > The primary reason database.clamav.net was split into several regional > zones was to avoid gigantic DNS reply, which would require TCP instead > of UDP. Instead of returning all mirror IP addressess, it returns only > several addressess "closest" to you (based on your IP region).
Would someone mind explaining how it knows what region each IP address should be in? I'm guessing it's just something simple, like having the top-level mirrors point different places in different regions, so it depends who you peer off of? I just find the following results odd: 69.212.*.* Residential DSL connection --> america 130.126.*.* University --> other 128.174.*.* Same University --> other 131.225.*.* US National Lab --> other Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
