Hello Samuel Benzaquen,

> > http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
> > look up "db.local.clamav.net" record type "ANY"
> >
> > ns1.clamav.net      69.61.68.204    BIND: 9.2.5
> I still can't figure out how can BIND know which IP belongs to which
> country.

It's impossible. We just _try_ to do that. Our primary goal is to
distribute the load among mirrors. The secondary goal is to redirect
most of the clients (not 100%!) to the nearest mirror.

> Is there a network list organized by country or does it do a whois on a per

yes

> query basis ?

no, that would be too resource intensive.


Best regards

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