[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Jun 27 14:58:22 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to
> use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if
> there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files
> on each machine or coordinate choices.

I've been using ncache ( nginx+caching ) to the same effect at one setup 
to achieve something like this, but I have a script that hijacks the 
request to mirrorlist= fetches and returns my own fixed list from a 
local fixed cache.

I know its very very hacky and completely bogus. But it works for me in 
a very limited sense. Someone might want to pickup on that and develop 
it further into a more functional system perhaps.

But if you dont control the proxy and cant admin/change configs in 
there, then you will need to manually setup each machine to use the same 
set of mirrors and drop the mirrorlist fetch's from .centos.org

- KB



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