On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:25:27 -0500 David Patte via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > I think that is my primary question - going up the chain from my > internet provider, or from my registrar, how integrated or dependent > are they on USA service providers. At some point, there is dependency. Network providers in Canada peer with US network providers, and probably a lot of Canadian traffic to other countries transits the US. You can't really get away from that. And I suspect a ton of Canadian sites and services are hosted on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, or use Cloudflare or similar US services. Even CBC, that most Canadian of institutions, uses Akamai as its CDN and has it's mail filtered by MIMECast, though CBC does appear to host it's own mail servers in Canada. At least, CBC owns 159.33.0.0/16 but I don't know if it's hosted in Canada. > I'd like to ensure as much as possible that my email for example > (IMAP at the provider) is actually hosted in Canada, and can't be > disabled at the flick of a US switch. My IMAP server is sitting 2.5m behind me. :) It's a Raspberry Pi with a couple of USB-3 drives attached. Regards, Dianne. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org