William L. Maltby wrote:
E.g. can a mirror definition be provided that supports "local addenda" that take precedence? This might be through a config file parameter. It could even allow one to suppress or continue processin of the "standard mirrors" if the locals fail.
I get
| [ralph@logout ~]$ wget -O - | "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4&arch=i386&repo=os&cc=de" | http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/centos.org/4.4/os/i386/ | http://centos.intergenia.de/4.4/os/i386/ | http://centos-mirror.financial.com/4.4/os/i386/ | http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/4.4/os/i386/ | http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/centos/4.4/os/i386/ | http://centos.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/centos/4.4/os/i386/ | http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/CentOS/4.4/os/i386/ | http://centos.crazyfrogs.org/4.4/os/i386/ | http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/CentOS/4.4/os/i386/ | http://centos.mirror.rokscom.nl/4.4/os/i386/
which are mirrors *in* Germany or in neighbour countries. I can assume that those are pretty fast, also.
The problem is: There might be more mirrors in my vicinity - but how is CentOS supposed to know that they are there? Do those mirrors report back to CentOS or do they just mirror it from somewhere else?
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 - those are the official ones. If you know of other mirrors close to you, then get *them* to report to CentOS.
We can't just probe every available ftp server and look if they mirror centos content.
Regards,
Ralph