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Re: topological closeness....

  • From: Matt Zimmerman
  • Date: Mon May 13 22:22:22 1996 
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Sanjay Dani wrote:

> On a global level, how useful would it be to base the decision
> on whether the client address belongs to the the InterNIC block,
> APNIC or the european registry ? I can live with exceptions
> such as an MCI customer in India gets redirected to the
> north american mirror server instead of the one in Singapore
> because their address belongs to an InterNIC allocated MCI
> block. How often do these exceptions happen ? Where can I
> find the association of address blocks and registries ?

I don't have any statistics on geographical exceptions, but the allocation
of IPv4 space by the IANA is available at
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space.

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