I don't notice to many mirrors in the mirrors DNS record:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=mirror.centos.org&type=A
I've also noticed decreased download performance using just mirror. I
find i can milk my bandwidth using a local mirror ( all 54 KB/s of
it.. roar.. ) just fine and prefer that.
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:49:05 +0100, dan1 <dan1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Do we still have to change the yum repositories addresses with CentOS 4 to
> point to another local mirror, or can we leave the default
> 'mirror.centos.org' repository ?
>
> I ask that because last year there has been a huge bandwidth overload and I
> don't know if the 'mirror.centos.org' automatically redirects to a local
> mirror (which might be theoretically possible) or not.
>
> In other words, are there some configuration changes requirements or
> suggestions from the CentOS team for yum to be fair with the main mirror of
> centos.org, or is everything transparent for the user and he just needs to
> type 'yum update' ?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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