[CentOS] CentOS6 yum-plugin-fastestmirror spectacular failure

[Lars Hecking]

John Doe writes:
> From: Lars Hecking <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> > What's going on? Nobody mirroring cr in other
> > parts of the world?
> 
> Dunno but in the release notes:
> 
> "- Baseurl for the CR repo is set to only use centos.org internal
> machines, this is to reduce the amount of time we need to spend in
> seeding and then managing external mirrors."
> 
> Doesn't that mean that it is not mirrored?

 When I log into one of our machines in the US and try it there,
 timedhosts.txt very definitely lists US mirrors; various .edu,
 kernel.org, and so on.