On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:33:35PM +0200, florian at gruendler.net wrote: > Is there no interest in my mirror offered on May 9 or what alse prevents the > mirrorlist admin from publishing it? a forgotten item in the TODO list ;) Your mail arrived while I was taking some days off. It's has just been added. Best regards, Tru > > what is the logic the centos project resolves mirrors to requesting clients? > by shortest AS path or what appears to be the closest geolocation? geolocation by default. > > what is the logic yum fails over to the next mirror? (does it also fail over > upon receiving HTTP status code 403?) any error, afaik. > > is there any advantage for yum to have ftp access or is http access enough? yum can use either ftp/http, so http is enough. > to join in on the distribution of the DVD iso files, which masterserver or > community on the eu-msync should be used That a long standing issue we need to fix... (too few centos.org machines with large bandwith/disks). You could get faster dvds/centos files from Tier1 rsync mirror. -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20080519/8b5139d1/attachment-0004.sig>