On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > * Gregory Maxwell [22/09/2008 20:04] : > >> How would it know? > > > > And more importantly, if you want to always hit the same mirror, why don't > > you edit its configuration to reflect that ? > > Here's the scenario: you have hundreds/thousands of people behind a > caching proxy. They don't know each other, they don't know what OS > distribution someone else is installing and the ones that happen to be > installing Fedora aren't going to know what mirror someone else chose or > got by accident. Likewise for the proxy - it's not going to know/care > that there are a bunch of different mirrors for different stuff that an > assortment of people might or might not want at the same time. Outcomes: 1) Noone does anything and the ISP/company serving the people download packages/etc. lots of times eating the company/ISPs bandwidth. 2) ISP/company tells MirrorManager what is going on, and saves bandwidth (note they get to solve their own problem, yay). And here's another scenario: hundreds/thousands of people with "close" IPs which aren't behind the same proxy, MirrorManager gives them the same list in the same order to try and hack around #1 above. Now everyone's download goes slow as they all hit the same mirror server (and the mirror server admin wonders why he got screwed over). Everyone complains and says MirrorManager/yum sucks ... and there's nothing anyone can do to fix the problem. -- James Antill <james.antill@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat
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