[CentOS-mirror] Mirror Selections

[Brian Rak]

We've seen the same behavior.  It seems like the only option right now 
is to manually override the mirror url, but that also means you don't 
get any fallback onto public mirrors if your mirror is down for some 
reason (you also have to convince the users to do it).

The most recent talk I can find about implementing mirrormanager is back 
in 2011, so I'm guessing that's not actually coming soon anymore?  It 
would definitely be nice to be able to direct all our clients to our 
local mirror.



On 12/11/2012 9:31 AM, Wilson, Tirian wrote:
> Good Morning,
>       What we have seen is that when you do a yum clean all, the next time it needs a mirror, it gets a list of mirrors and then fastestmirror picks from that list.  Unfortunately, the list that it pulls is a partial list and your local mirror may not be on it.  So while Fedora uses some logic to return local mirrors (based on AS number) the CentOS list seems to be random.  So far, I have never actually hit our mirror with a yum command even though from the logs I can see external entities hitting it all the time.  It would be nice if there was more logic in the mirror selection process, but Fedora is really the best.  For every other distribution we mirror, it is pretty much random if you will hit the local mirror.
>
>       We initially installed our mirror to reduce internet traffic and speed up updates for our students, but with the exception of Fedora, it really hasn't helped.  Where possible, we try to direct our students to download directly from it when they need ISOs, but outside of the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences, not may people know about the mirror.
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> From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] on behalf of Martynas UAB "Duomenų Centras" [martynas at aleja.lt]
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> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 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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