An basic Idea. As you are a company hosting thousand of CentOS box, I think a redirector (CISCO's WCCP & Squid) might help. Other then that, you must have traffic redirection system, which might help, though I am not sure what kind of redirector your DCs have. Regards Ahamed Bauani Freelance ICT Consultant Working on Deploying IPv6 in Bangladesh. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas on how to steer mirror traffic to your own mirrors > without logging into the boxes? We have two public mirrors (one in each of > our DCs) and would love to reduce the load on external mirrors, but manually > changing the settings of tons of production boxes (many of which we don't even > have access to) is not really an option. Most/all of the boxes have the > default yum config (fastestmirror plugin). > > Any ideas are welcome. > > -- > Randy M. > www.FastServ.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > -- Regards Noor Ahamed Bauani Technology Advisor Dhaka Wireless http://www.dhaka-wireless.net/ HP: +880-1818-BAUANI (SMS Only, No Direct Call Please)