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[David <davidvargas1 AT mac.com>]

Once OpenNic web site, tells you which DNS Servers IP are the closest
one, I'll start to ping those listed DNS server, then, I'll decide which
is faster for me.

You don't need a rocket science degree, or some fancy and incoherent
explanation to figure which is the best.

Como se habla Español en ESPAñOL?




On 1/24/2015 5:17 PM, Alejandro Bonet wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I dont know how opennic calculates the "closest dns server to a given
> ip address".
> I suppose it is based on "server declared location"...
> 
> I have some studies about "conectivity of the whole internet", based
> on statistics about random traceroutes...
> 
> If you run a traceroute to a random IP from your computer, the result
> is a "route" from your IP to this random destination IP.
> 
> Each line of this report has an "intermediate IP" and some measurement
> of its response times...
> 
> It is evident that two consecutive lines of this report "have a direct
> connection between both of them".
> 
> If you collect a lot of these "connections" (made with a lot of random
> destination traceroutes) and group them by the most significant bytes
> of the "connection" adresses, you have "a map of the whole internet
> conectivity". As more and more "connections", more fine tuned is your
> map...
> 
> 
> 
> This could be useful to many things.
> 
> One of them is "to calculate the nearest public DNS server given a
> client IP address"
> 
> (Here, of course, "the nearest" is "the one with less jumps from the
> client IP"...)
> 
> 
> Alejandro Bonet
> md.es.opennic
> 
> PD: I'm Spaniard. We also invented "The Guitar"...
> 
> Es siempre bueno aprender español !!!
> 
> (And another beautiful languages...)
> 
> Dont forget to mind us !!!
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGggAGITwg
> 
> http://alargador.org/hth5.htm
> 
> 
> 2015-01-20 18:50 GMT+01:00, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>:
>> Wordpress decided it would no longer use the plugin that was generating
>> those IPs.  Brian has fixed the homepage now, hopefully that was the
>> last page affected by this.
>>
>> On 01/19/2015 06:21 PM, Oleg Khovayko wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Today I opened OpenNIC web-site: http://www.opennicproject.org/
>>> And did not found "pair of closest IP addresses" on the page. See only
>>> message:
>>>
>>>
>>>        Give me the numbers, I know what I’m doing! [nserver]
>>>
>>> Maybe, something wrong with DB on hosting?
>>> Please check.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Oleg
>>>
>>>
>>>
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