I have never seen our own mirrors show up in more than 1 of the 4 repos at any given time. In the case of DNS/Proxy hijacking, does this mean we would have to return ONLY our mirrors, or do I just make sure they are part of the 10 random mirrors? -- Randy M. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> To: centos-mirror at centos.org Sent: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:51:49 +0200 Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Ideas on steering yum to local mirrors > Am 25.09.10 21:58, schrieb Randy McAnally: > > 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). > > a) *BE* the fastest mirror :) (which does not work in the US, as > mirrorlist only returns 10 random mirrors from the country you are > in). > > b) DNS-Hijack mirrorlist.centos.org (I would not do that without telling > customers about that) and return your mirror always > > Traffic redirection to mirrorlist.centos.org (and then returning your > own mirror) might also work. > > No real elegant solution there. > > Ralph > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror ------- End of Original Message -------