On 04/05/2011 12:30 PM, Roelf Wichertjes wrote: > > Maybe a idea, > Why not choose the least busy ones, > Say there are 100 mirrors, 5 are busy and 5 almost unused > Isn't it a better idea to let the 5 busy and the 5 unbusy pull from centos.org > And have the other 90 pull from the 5 unbusy? > That should even the load better. >> On 04/05/2011 10:20 AM, Prof. P. Sriram wrote: >>> Maybe it's been discussed before, but would it not be worthwhile to do a >>> DNS based thing for this? We create a temporary rsync source domain >> >> Thats quite a lot of work, I'm more keen on having ACL's in place that >> only allow some specific mirrors ( maybe the 100 busiest ones ) to pull >> from centos.org; and have everyone else pull from them. from 'busy' -i meant more like kernel.org / heanet.ie or mirrorservice.org - KB