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[Oleg Khovayko <khovayko AT gmail.com>]

UPDATE:

One my friend suggested me interesting tool right now: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennicwizard/
By his words, this took has functionality, very close to my initial 
proposal.
I think, you can set link to this tool from OpenNIC main page.


Brian Koontz wrote:
> 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
>
>
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