The ASN usage is a novel idea, and would cater to lots of issues aobut nearest mirrors discussed in the past. The date and time mentioned is good for me personally, and as a collaborative effort, that is the best that can be done. Those who could not join, unfortunate, those who can, GREAT! Looking forward to chatting with all of you on 18/Oct Regards HASSAN On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:02, Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com>wrote: > Am 29.09.10 18:26, schrieb Randy McAnally: > > From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> > >> The problem is that we can *only* do GeoIP. The granularity of that > >> isn't fine enough at times (see above or other examples in this > >> thread). > > > > Maybe we return more than 10 mirrors in certain cases where many mirrors > are > > close by? > > > > The problem is that, by randomly choosing 10 mirrors within X distance > our own > > mirrors are not always returned. > > Even if we return more mirrors (which shouldn't be a problem), the > fastest mirror plugin by default does not run each time. So if you > cannot control the configuration of those hosts, that does not really > help you much, although chances are greater that you are winning. > > I am sure that a planned migration to a different mirror tool would be > better. But yes, that takes time. > > Ralph > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20101002/103f5095/attachment-0005.html>