List: I recently upgraded the OS on several of my Linux servers & desktops & noticed one thing. The upgrade cost me little bandwidth more than the download size, as the yum downloaded the multiple copies from the proxy..I had increased the max file size for caching. However,once the primary server failed for some reason...whatever (maybe one file is not there or a dns lookup failed or a temporary break in the internet connection)....yum went on to the next server and started using bandwidth all over again. Would it be possible to have yum have a feature which when enabled would get yum to try the servers in sequential order every time a server failed...i.e. try to connect to the first, second server & so on for every file...or maybe a better way...just so it is more proxy friendly and obviates the need to maintain a local mirror. With regards. Sanjay.
