India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[Joel]

> > Therefore, the geographical proximity of two hosts within India does
> > not imply their proximity on the Internet.
> 
> Is digging a ditch and laying fiber between them out of the question?

Quite possibly so. Think about the population density. 

Digging a ditch any real distance is liable to require a lot of
political involvement. A one kilometer ditch is liable to cross the land
of close to a thousand people, more, perhaps, if there are large
apartments or multiple-owner complexes in the path. 

Anyway, you can't just assume things are the same all over.


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