Hello Robert,
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 21:12 +0000, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to avoid using ftp mirrors.
When configuring your repo's using baseurl= instead of mirrorlist= you can pin the server being used. Find a http mirror at https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ or configure all hosts to use the same FTP mirror and white list that one.
If you have many clients accessing the same mirror configuring a proxy (proxy= in yum.conf) to cache the downloaded rpms will reduce download time and load on the mirror you are using.
Regards, Leonard.