>> Just an idea
>>
>> in release of CentOS-3.3 in packages yum and centos-yumconf there is
>> (centos-)yum.conf file with souch content:
>>
>> for repositories
>> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/*
>>
>>
>> as I see from this:
>> # host mirror.centos.org
>> mirror.centos.org has address 69.93.142.19
>> mirror.centos.org has address 69.93.26.26
>> mirror.centos.org has address 69.57.175.50
>>
>>
>> So it means ALL trafic goes to centos.org
>
>
> From what I understood, mirror.centos.org is round robined to all
> mirrors as it is. So I fail to understand how the costs are so high now.
>
Not just to three hosts (as I understund in main centos site).
It means ALL default (with non changed yum.conf) installation downloads
updates from THAT three sites.
It also means that if there is 5000 CentOS machines and they run "yum
update openoffice".
The generated taffic is 297065319 bytes * 5000 = 1.485.326.595.000 = 1.5
T !!!
( -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 218087418 záÅ? 16 14:42
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-16.14.EL.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 43240115 záÅ? 16 14:41
openoffice.org-1.1.0-16.14.EL.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 35737786 záÅ? 16 14:42
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-16.14.EL.i386.rpm )
