<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yum FastestMirror plugin picks the fastest mirror out of a list provided from it, in the event of a mirror being offline it picks the next fastest and tries from there until it exhausts the list of mirrors it has cached or succeeds<div><br></div><div>CentOS is fairly automated like that</div><div><br></div><div>the other thing is that the mirror list checker will also remove your mirror from the list temporarily if it cannot connect to stop serving bad mirrors</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 5 May 2013, at 22:19, squadra <<a href="mailto:squadra@gmail.com">squadra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>since i run a highly frequented mirror, i wanted to ask if i should announce a short maintanance window (aprox. 2hrs)... or its it not needed because yum will take care about and takes the next avail. mirror?</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers.</div><div><br></div><div>Juergen<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><pre>Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!</pre>
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