India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[Subhro]

N. Raghavendra wrote:

>At 2005-04-14T14:35:49+02:00, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
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>Traffic between two hosts located in India is usually routed through
>US or European networks. 
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I beg to differ.

Tracing route to in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    16 ms    18 ms    22 ms  59.93.160.1
  2    39 ms    39 ms    42 ms  218.248.253.89
  3    44 ms    38 ms    40 ms  218.248.249.33
  4    38 ms    40 ms    45 ms  218.248.255.5
  5    59 ms    48 ms    42 ms  218.248.255.6
  6    52 ms    55 ms    69 ms  203.200.145.202
  7   105 ms   103 ms   102 ms  ekm-mum-2nd-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in 
[202.54.2.202
]
  8    93 ms   100 ms    91 ms  lvsb-vsb-IDC-1st-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in 
[202.54.
2.10]
  9    92 ms    88 ms    90 ms  203.199.112.46.static.vsnl.net.in 
[203.199.112.4
6]
 10   102 ms    91 ms    89 ms  fe0-1.sar1.in.yahoo.com [203.199.124.154]
 11    95 ms    95 ms   104 ms  in.beta.vip.in.yahoo.com [202.43.219.47]

Trace complete.

This completely remains inside India. Unless you purposefully introduce 
some US/EU intervention in the routing tables, it works withut problems.

>I think that would be the case also with a FreeBSD mirror in India.
>This could be one reason why there are no such mirrors.  Another could
>be the fact that very few Indians use UNIX, or its clones --- and
>those who do mostly use GNU/Linux.
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Yeh the second one is a point. I already pointed to it.

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>There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and
>GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs.
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I didnt find any. :-( However as I pointed earlier I am very happy to 
burn the CDs and sip them out for a nominal charge.

Regards
S.