N. Raghavendra writes: > Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through > US or European networks.
Why?? > A `whois' lookup for 208.192.183.149, says that the address belongs to > UUNET Technologies, Inc., VA, US. The address 134.159.128.42 belongs > to Reach Networks HK Ltd, Hong Kong. As I understand it, this means > that traffic from Allahabad goes to the US, and then to Hong Kong, > before it reaches Bombay. The IT equivalent of the proverbial slow boat to China. At least most of the world's secret services get a peak at all Indian traffic, I guess. > Therefore, the geographical proximity of two hosts within India does > not imply their proximity on the Internet. Is digging a ditch and laying fiber between them out of the question? > In addition to such routing troubles, most Indian sites suffer from > severe bandwidth paucity. Because it doesn't exist, or because telecoms and ISPs are gouging them with their pricing? -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
