On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Elliot Lee wrote: > > I am all in favor of fixing what is broken, but so far the only specific > > complaint has been from Jef about the difficulty of seeing what's going on > > with things. Other than that, I guess I really need to understand the > > specifics of the problem so I can do my part to help fix them... > > I had yum bailing out on my when timeouts occured. It printed out > "Trying other mirror." and then complained about having run out of > available mirrors. That particular problem should have been fixed a little while ago... > At the moment (with the mirrorlist available), using different mirrors > works again: > > | Downloading Packages: > | http://fedora.inode.at/updates/5/i386/bind-config-9.3.2-10.FC5.i386.rpm: > | [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Content-Type: text/html > | Content-Length: 345 > | Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:51:14 GMT > | Server: lighttpd/1.4.11 > | Trying other mirror. > | (1/4): bind-config-9.3.2- 100% |=========================| 50 kB 00:00 > > Second: Having the redirector on the serverside makes plugins like > fastestmirror completely useless, as only one mirror will be found and > tested. What happens if the server running the redirector goes down? And what will happen if the server hosting the mirrorlist goes down? :) I can't help with the fastestmirror thing per se, and I know there are people who are on the same backbone as a fast mirror and would rather make use of that mirror by default. Some people will be helped by GeoIP (slated to happen sometime). And perhaps there can be a way for clients to report back to the server which mirrors they find fastest, while still allowing the server to have a voice in the redirect decision. Let's try to figure out the best of both worlds... We do have a redundant setup that should be able to handle a reasonable amount of problems, but nothing is foolproof. -- Elliot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
