Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 13:08 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > What's the problem with that scheme? It's hundreds of times > > > faster on my second and subsequent machines - and would be for > > > anyone else going through a proxy configured to cache large > > > objects. > > > > What is wrong with that scheme is that only 1 mirror is listed ... > > if you loose the connection, if it gets overloaded in the middle of > > your transfer, etc. then there is no failover. > > Doesn't your geo-ip enabled DNS service drop non-responding servers? > It has been much less trouble in practice from my locations than the > fedora or centos4 repositories. But there is no geo-IP in Centos3 ... Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra@xxxxxxxxxxxx | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC
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