Am 06.01.11 19:57, schrieb Rex Dieter:
On 01/06/2011 12:39 PM, Andre Dault wrote:
I was wondering, how does the "fastest mirror" algorithm work?
Very simple/naive, compares ping response times, see /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt for last-used values (which I sometimes tweak by hand to get mirrors I want).
It at least does a connect() to the host in question.
Ralph