Sanjay Arora wrote: > 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. Yum already does this. The behaviour however is affected by the failovermethod option. The default setting is "roundrobin" which randomly selects a URLs from the list. Sounds like you want the "priority" method which moves through the list sequentially. See the yum.conf man page for more details. Menno