On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:18:42PM -0700, John Reiser wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > John Reiser wrote: > > >> ... spring break on many academic calendars in the US, time for the final > >> rounds of the US NCAA college basketball tournament, ... > > > Try the European mirrors then. :-) > > yum, preupgrade, and related FedoraProject software often does its best > to hide such details from the user, and to make it inconvenient to choose > anything other than the default round-robin by geo-IP. [jigdo is an exception.] The mirror choice algorithm is far more complicated than round-robin by geo-IP. Of course, it isn't perfect, but is a decent approximation most of the time. > For instance, by default yumdownloader generates no record of which mirror > you get upon HTTP 302 [or 303] redirection from the master mirror. > In practice you see the ultimate URL only if the connection [attempt] > actually times out. Patches or enhancement bugs filed suggesting ways in which the tools you're interested would be more verbose are welcome. > This enables the mirror administrator(s) to hide from users in most > cases of poor service (missing file, stale file, slower than > necessary, ...) This, my friend, is just a pot shot. We're _lucky_ to have so many mirrors, and in most cases, mirrors with very responsive administrators; not to mention the Infrastructure team that keeps it all humming. If you have genuine problems with particular mirrors, feel free to let the folks in #fedora-admin know, or file a ticket in the Fedora Infrastructure trac (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure) with the details. Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler, and proud of it! :-) -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
