Re: mirrorlist cgi - URLs not ending in country code ?
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 00:07 +1000, David Timms wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:18 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Over the last couple of weeks we've put together a mirror checking
tool
...
> As I said at the beginning of the thread it's using geoip.
>
> we take the ip of the host in the mirror and hand that to geoip which
> then tells us which country an ip lives in.
OK, thanks. I guess the mirrorlist cgi would use the GeoLite DB
{http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country} which suggests:
Accuracy Approximately 97%. I could imagine that there would be a large
amount of changes per day, and hence impossible to keep it truely up2date.
which is significantly better than doing nothing at all.
perfection runs contrary to beneficial.
-sv