The /etc/yum.conf that comes with Fedora Core 2 Test 1 contains the line: baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/[...] And the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources contains the line: yum fedora-core-rawhide http://download.fedora.redhat.com/[...] Meanwhile, the article: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ ... suggests changing the yum.conf and the source file to point at one of the mirror sites. So, why not change the default configuration for the distro, so it points elsewhere? If there is no single site that can handle the load, it would seem possible to create a target URL that can do some kind of automatic redirect to multiple different mirrors. Later, with some coding effort, improve the up2date button so it brings up a menu of plausible sites, perhaps based on the time zone and other location information. It seems odd to ship something in a test distro that should always be changed to something else. Or do I need a visit from the clue stick? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl@xxxxxxxx Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs