[CentOS-mirror] Mirror Selections

[Seamus Ryan]

When I raised the issue of mirror distribution several months ago, it was identified that the main reason you don't always land at your mirror is because the CentOS mirror distribution is based on a number of "random" aspects. From memory it was a combination of latency + round robin. As a result, you should land at your mirror most (but not all) of the time.

You would see the likes of epel always land at your mirror because they use Mirror Manager (My assumption here being that you have told them your IP ranges so your client IP's are always told to go to your mirror, unless it is outdated).

There were plans to move CentOS mirrors to mirror manager but I am not sure how far away this was.

Regards,
Seamus

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From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Martynas UAB "Duomenu Centras"
Sent: Monday, 10 December 2012 4:51 AM
To: 'Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.'
Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Selections

Hello,
 Time to time we see same  issues. 
Yum clean all and then fastest mirror goes back to our mirror server.
At first i thought that there is some problems with mirror, but for epel or openvz mirror always selects our local mirror as fastest, but centos base and update repos not...


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From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mohammed Naser
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:50 PM
To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Selections

Just giving my 2 cents here

Did you clear the fastestmirror cache since your mirror went up?  It's possible that it just still thinks cogentco's mirror is closer.  Try yum clean all and see what happens

Regards,
Mohammed

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Nic Tippelt <nic at doctor-cloud.net> wrote:
> Hello There,
>
> Just a quick question,
>
> How are mirrors selected? We have our public mirror which is at under 
> 1ms away from client servers, however CentOS seems to be choosing 
> CogentCO's mirror at 5ms, just curious is all!
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Doctor Cloud Pty Ltd
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