Hi, Frédéric! > There's welcome.msg and welcome2.msg. I probably receive the > latter because I don't have reverse DNS.
First of all, ftp.gnome.org resolves to 2 different ip addresses: 130.239.18.137 (tutankhamon.acc.umu.se) and 130.239.18.173 (napoleon.acc.umu.se) Only welcome.msg mentions "CodeFactory AB". It also has some ANSI sequences to highlight the big "ACE" banner. I only have addresses with reverse DNS and I always get welcome.msg. The greeting in Swedish is apparently not a port of either welcome.msg or welcome2.msg. You may want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any problems. It makes no sence to discuss it between us. > Anyway, I don't know why people from Brazil are always > redirected to some Swedish server. Well, because all IP addresses associated with ftp.gnome.org are hosted in Sweden. It's quite hard to make DNS reply differently dependent on the one location of the client. Akamai provides this service (I think so, their site lacks any details). But even the FTP server of the Linux kernel doesn't use this technology (as far as I know) - users have to choose mirrors themselves. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc