On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:43:04AM -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote:
For my mirror, mirror.hmc.edu, I see mirror age of 4 hours, last probe 1 hour, and status ok on mirror-status, and on machines on the same network as the mirror I get the following list from http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os:
http://centos.promopeddler.com/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://mirrors.gigenet.com/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://mirror.raystedman.net/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://mirror.astate.edu/pub/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ http://mirrors.arsc.edu/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/
it's a random generated list of 10 US mirrors in order to spread the network load.
I modify the yum .repo files on the machines I manage to always point to our mirror,
That's the expected behaviour when one is able to maintain its own local mirror, imho.
but it would be nice if our local mirror were returned for other users at the 5Cs who don't change their setup.
That's means that - mirrorlist need to know which IP range is owned by which local mirror -> like Fedora MirrorManager. - how should the centos.org know that your requested block range it legit for each local mirror? - more burden on the centos.org "logic" - no load spreading over multiples mirrors
Cheers,
Tru