On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
That would also be fine if it always gave the same list in the same order when asked through the same proxy -
It will until it next checks the mirrors - which happen approx hourly - and then the mirrors within a cc are used randomly so as not to overload any particular mirror with al the traffic.
if the client walks the list in order.
It does - unless you use fastestmirror plugin
Or if the URL to get this list was always the same and it is marked cachable for some time.
It is always the same - mabe it needs marking as cachable ??
You don't have to control a machine to give out it's IP in a DNS response. You only have to arrange for it accept the name as a vhost and map the document root to the top of your mirror tree. That still may be a lot to ask but it is a very different question.
It is more than most mirrors will do - especially when they have varying format urls
The nature of your product is such that the odds are good that vast numbers of those boxes are located in some small number of places that would only pull one copy of an update if you didn't go out of your way to force each machine to get its own.
But at least we get to see how many machines are out there :) Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
