Meaningless as far as network-closeness, yes. But useful for other
purposes, like political ones. (Taxes, export laws, censorship laws, etc
etc etc.)
> My favorite example is a shop up the street and me.
> Geographically-wise we're not much more than a couple miles apart.
> Net-wise we're on opposite ends of the continent.
Yah. The place I commuted to for work actually not only went
cross-country and back, but also took a short hop thru Canada on
occasion. To get from my home to the place I drove to each morning.
Sheesh.
> What people are wanting to do here is finding the closest net-wise
> server to the client. This is more a function of routing, ping avg's and
> traceroutes than it is a function of locality or domain names.
True. Which is why the DNS should include geographic information rather
than network-nearness. Network-nearness can be calculated, and can change
on an hour-by-hour basis. Generally, IP addresses stay within a relatively
small geographic region (currently).
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