Matt Domsch wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Geographic distance doesn't seem too useful. Average network ping times
>> would be better.
>>
>> For example, Australia is much "closer" to USA than to... whatever part
>> of Asia it has closest, because all of Australia's network traffic goes
>> through USA.
>>
>>
> Likewise, it's not difficult to find .uk domains hosted in other
> countries, for example.

Oh, I didn't even notice he was talking about domain names.

Yeah, that makes no sense. We should be looking at country codes (which are
NOT the same as top-level domain names for countries) as defined in each
mirror in the metalink (there is an attribute for that). Use the domain
name *only* to get an IP address and connect to the server.



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