I would really like to see CentOS pickup something like fedora's mirroring system. I know CentOS is looking into it, just another vote for the new system :) On 10/26/2009 10:55 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote: > El Sáb 24 Octubre 2009, Ralph Angenendt escribió: > >> Am 24.10.09 10:16, schrieb Mogens Kjaer: >> >>> For the Fedora mirror site, I can log in to Fedora's >>> mirror administration site and define a set of ranges >>> of IP addresses. >>> >>> When the mirrorlist server receives a request from >>> one of these IP addresses it would return my local >>> mirror as the first choice, unless my mirror has >>> become too old. >>> >> Yes. We also know that our mirror system is a thing of, well, artisan >> beauty. We will be looking at other ways to manage our mirror system >> (make that: we will have to). >> >> If people here want to help with that - I'm all for it. At the moment I >> have the Fedora system and SuSe's mirrorbrain on my reading/testing list. >> >> I think this will need a new thread at some time. >> > FWIW, I read on Fedora's mirror list that there's a patch floating around to > enable yum-plugin-fastestmirror do a more "advanced" check. It downloads > repomd.xml and uses it to compare the download speed of every mirror. > > Check comment #5 from this bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484371 > > It's not optimal but it might be useful. > > Regards, >