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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 12:00:52AM -0400, Oleg Khovayko wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> I see, our geolocation service works unstable.
> More over, after additional thinking, I understand, there is not
> needed real geolocation, because of network topology is not 1:1
> mapped to geography.
> Thus, there is just single real criteria to select a best service -
> measure latencies between client and all available OpenNIC T2
> servers, and provide to client
> report, sorted by latency.

We've actually tested this, and it turns out to be somewhat unreliable as
well.

That said, I favor a weighted score based upon geoIP and latency.  Or,
better yet, just two lists:  One based on geo data, the other on latency.

  --Brian