Re: [CentOS] cr repo and firewalling

Markus Falb wrote:

Hi, I find myself in a complicated situation and would like to ask the oracle (choke!) for help. I would like to install the packages from the continuous release repo and the yum config for this repo says

baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/cr/$basearch/

well, I definitely do not want to allow worldwide outgoing http so I try to find the IPs

# host mirror.centos.org mirror.centos.org has address 93.113.36.66

but! wait...

# host mirror.centos.org mirror.centos.org has address 88.198.211.197

dns round robin is not very helpful for me doing firewall rules. How would you solve this yum and firewall thing?

pick a mirror that's close to you and trustworthy (ie stays up to date), and use that as your baseurl.