Author: teor Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Debian 9: Build fails consistently,
name resolution fails sooner or later
> On 11 Mar 2017, at 02:08, Arnaud <arnaud@???> wrote:
>
> Amazingly, requests to google go directly from Vietnam to the
> States. Which explains why they are still fast when everything else is
> slow, and which makes me wonder if google has private undersea cables.
It's far more likely that Google has a server in Vietnam, and the geoip
database is using the location of the corporate office, not the location
of the server.
(There's no money in location-based advertising to servers, so no-one
cares if the geoip is accurate.)
T
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