On 11/25/05, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
Collins, where are you physically located (what country) so I can see if we can fix you on a stable mirror.
The problem that I think you are having is that mirror.centos.org is a rrdns and I think you are having problems connecting to one (or more) of the several (currently 9) machines.
If we can pick a couple fast, close, local mirrors and setup a fail-over or two for you, I think it will clear up all your problems.
Thanks, Johnny, and not only for your on target response. You and the other folks at CentOS do a bang up job.
I'm in Denver, CO, USA.
Part of my problem, I suspect is that I haven't updated the repos specs since I brought the laptop up to 4.1 level. Until the update completed, I was probably also using a downlevel yum now that I think of it.
From what I saw, I agree with your assessment. After I repeated enough
times, I must have connected with a different mirror, but then hit the same or another mirror again later in the process.
I haven't really seen this problem on my desktop machine (same home site) other than when the download storm for 4.2 was in progress. Prior to this, the only trouble I had was with occasional hits on the Dag sites which certainly is no responsibility of yours.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan