---------- Original Message ----------- From: Ralph Angenendt ralph.angenendt@gmail.com To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." centos-mirror@centos.org Sent: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:53 +0200 Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Ideas on steering yum to local mirrors
If we want to move from current system, then ASN based system to determine closest mirror might work.Though It also have pro & cons. So my suggestion is to work with current system and find out where is the problem so that the problem can be fixed.
The problem is that we can *only* do GeoIP. The granularity of that isn't fine enough at times (see above or other examples in this thread).
Maybe we return more than 10 mirrors in certain cases where many mirrors are close by?
The problem is that, by randomly choosing 10 mirrors within X distance our own mirrors are not always returned.
Many times mirrors 1000 miles away will win election because our own are not in the list.
I can be pretty sure that if our mirrors are anywhere in the list, yum would elect them.