Re: Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:29 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> 
>> > I then manually edited the /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt file to bias
>> > the results against the mirror yum was choosing (I made it worst rather
>> > than best). Oddly, it again made no difference!
>> 
>> Doing that, changing the ping times to smaller than all other mirrors,
>> has always worked for me, when I've needed it.
> 
> As one would expect, hence the mystery. BTW I assume you meant you
> changed them to larger (to bias against certain servers).

I meant what I said.  My use-case was to get it to prefer mirrors I knew 
were local/fast, not to discriminate against bad ones (but it should work 
both ways).

-- Rex

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