7 Sep
2006
7 Sep
'06
8:56 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 13:08 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
What's the problem with that scheme? It's hundreds of times faster on my second and subsequent machines - and would be for anyone else going through a proxy configured to cache large objects.
What is wrong with that scheme is that only 1 mirror is listed ... if you loose the connection, if it gets overloaded in the middle of your transfer, etc. then there is no failover.
Doesn't your geo-ip enabled DNS service drop non-responding servers? It has been much less trouble in practice from my locations than the fedora or centos4 repositories.
But there is no geo-IP in Centos3 ...
Ralph
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