[plug] rsync mirrors

[Grahame Bowland]

On Saturday 28 September 2002 13:09, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Quick one,
> someone mentioned that to check if planetmirror is going through a low
> cost path when rsyncing, do a traceroute and look for "waix" in the
> path.  Or was that "waia"?
>
> I traceroute'd two IP's given by host www.planetmirror.com and both go
> through waia (from iinet), not waix.
>
> Are there any local (as in Perth) rsync mirrors, particularly for
> Mandrake and gentoo.

Ok, here is a nice way to do it:
http://waix.waia.asn.au/lg/waix.html

CLick on BGP on then enter the IP address (looks like 130.95.3.201).

That'll tell you if the thing is in WAIX. Note that this does /not/ mean that 
your route to it is through WAIX, this obviously depends on whether your ISP 
uses that route, etc, etc.

-grahame