[CentOS-mirror] VPS as mirrors

Wed Feb 25 12:48:51 UTC 2009
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

BST.LT - The Information Company wrote:
> i propose to skip 2-3 maximum ping results and then average to determine
> best mirror. This will prevent selecting wrong mirror if mirror sits on
> OpenVZ VPS.
> 
> Any opinions?

there are no centos mirrors running from vps's that I know of. Certainly 
none of the .centos.org machines are vps's/

Also, fastestmirror does not use 'ping' to determine the mirror speed.