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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Path: sparky!uunet!mplex!fff
- From: fff@microplex.com (Fred Fierling)
- Subject: Re: Is there a Internet distance measure?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.190806.28164@microplex.com>
- Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd.
- References: <dank.715818516@blacks>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:08:06 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <dank.715818516@blacks> dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
-
- >I'm looking for an automatic way to select the 'nearest' host from a list,
- >e.g. such that an Archie client automatically chooses a nearby
- >site rather than one on the other side of the globe.
-
- To achieve this the latitude and longitude for a given host would have to be
- listed in the DNS records. All I've seen so far is some discussion (I think
- in this newsgroup) about storing such information in a new type of record or
- in existing record types. I think it's a good idea.
-
- For your purposes wouldn't you be more interested in the host with the best
- connectivity not proximity? If you can connect to a host on the other side
- of the country through a T1 link, that would be better than a host across
- the street through a 9600 bps line. Although I suppose if you had a choice
- between two hosts, both connected by a T1 link, you'd prefer the closest one...
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