Brandy Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 swedish tracker, swedish company, american flag :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 The flag displayed depends on what the TLD (top level domain) is. All .com and .net hostnames are displayed with the american flag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forumposter Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 This problem also occurs with the German Provider T-Online, since they also use .net domains. So it's shown as American.Any chance to make a more intelligent system? Either by tracerouting them (which might take too many bandwidth), or by adding some special hostmask, like the T-Online Hostmask to be recognized as German Flag.dip.t-dialin.netarcor-ip.netBoth are German Providers which may be added as:if hostmask = *.dip.t-dialin.netthen flag = German.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static- Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 waste of time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 No. It's not supposed to be accurate. We might as well remove the flag for .com and .net and .org and other generic domains... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static- Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 cool. yeah that would work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grauw Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 You could show the flags based on a GeoIP list, that would be more accurate probably. But I guess those lists aren't really small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
True Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 I couldn't care too much either way, myself. The flags are a neat gimmick though ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP-A Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 Personally i like the flags, its a great little addition i havent seen in other clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yrelease Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 dumping the flag all together would be great! shaves off a few hundreths of percent of memroy footprint, and the smaller the better . or have an option to enable or disable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 A few hundred percents ? try 0.10% at best The images are tiny AND compressed inside the exe, so they dont even have to be loaded.. simply displayed where they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
True Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 I really don't think benching a flag vs nonflag version is necessary. Do you? To me, it's fine. It isn't a nuisance, and can give a quick, organized view of what kind of TLD you are connected to. Boo hoo if it isn't in the US, that isn't what it is there for (although I guess having flags like that can be misguiding in itself).As I said, I am pretty much neutral... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 A few hundred percents ? try 0.10% at best yrelease actually said "a few hundredths of percent", so it's somewhere along the same line as your projected figure ;]Just like True, I'm neutral in this whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjobo Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 Yea.. dump the flags, as ~50% are incorrect, showing the american flag for generic domains.Most of *telia.com *bredband.comare swedish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagnut Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 The most accurate way of checking location is by using whoishttp://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=83.166.19.1check country:but this will also generate (IMO) useless traffic towardsjust drop the flags if they can't be used accuratly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Just leave them as they are right now, i say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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