> Haven't looked at this yet, but how about selecting more than one mirror > (e.g. the 5 best), creating a local yum mirror file, and pointing yum's > configuration to that file:///path/to/that/mirrorlist? I really like the > fact that yum tries another server when one doesn't seem to respond, which > wouldn't be the case anymore with a single baseurl configured. What about combining this: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/284631 with netselect and generating a mirrorlist of the best mirrors every night or something? -sv