N. Raghavendra wrote:
At 2005-04-14T14:35:49+02:00, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through
US or European networks.
I beg to differ.
Tracing route to in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 16 ms 18 ms 22 ms 59.93.160.1
2 39 ms 39 ms 42 ms 218.248.253.89
3 44 ms 38 ms 40 ms 218.248.249.33
4 38 ms 40 ms 45 ms 218.248.255.5
5 59 ms 48 ms 42 ms 218.248.255.6
6 52 ms 55 ms 69 ms 203.200.145.202
7 105 ms 103 ms 102 ms ekm-mum-2nd-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2.202
]
8 93 ms 100 ms 91 ms lvsb-vsb-IDC-1st-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.
2.10]
9 92 ms 88 ms 90 ms 203.199.112.46.static.vsnl.net.in [203.199.112.4
6]
10 102 ms 91 ms 89 ms fe0-1.sar1.in.yahoo.com [203.199.124.154]
11 95 ms 95 ms 104 ms in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47]
Trace complete.
This completely remains inside India. Unless you purposefully introduce some US/EU intervention in the routing tables, it works withut problems.
I think that would be the case also with a FreeBSD mirror in India.
This could be one reason why there are no such mirrors. Another could
be the fact that very few Indians use UNIX, or its clones --- and
those who do mostly use GNU/Linux.
Yeh the second one is a point. I already pointed to it.
I didnt find any. :-( However as I pointed earlier I am very happy to burn the CDs and sip them out for a nominal charge.
There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and
GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs.
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