Once upon a time, Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > And what will happen if the server hosting the mirrorlist goes down? :) It would probably be easy enough for yum (or a plugin) to cache the last known mirrorlist. > 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... Well, what problem was the server-side redirection try to solve? What are the cons to having the client choose a mirror instead of the server? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
