---------- Original Message ----------- From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." <centos-mirror at centos.org> Sent: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:53 +0200 Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Ideas on steering yum to local mirrors > > If we want to move from current system, then ASN based system to > > determine closest mirror might work.Though It also have pro & cons. So > > my suggestion is to work with current system and find out where is > > the problem so that the problem can be fixed. > > 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. Many times mirrors 1000 miles away will win election because our own are not in the list. I can be pretty sure that if our mirrors are anywhere in the list, yum would elect them.