On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:09 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Now the scenario is this. I have a local yum-repository of RH9 updates, > from which I deleted several corrupted rpms, so it is missing some > rpms...about 15 of them. > > In the update url, I have given two urls...first of the local repository > and second of the duke mirror. Now, when yum reaches the first missing > file, it switches to the second failover url of the duke mirror, but it > does not switch back to the faster and local mirror for getting other > files. It keeps downloading files from the remote, ignoring the local > repository. > That's correct, once a mirror has failed it is never restored. Why would yum oscillate back and forth if it has already experienced one as a failed mirror? -sv