On 8/3/2011 12:05 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: > > Matt Domsch wrote some exciting new features including multiple named > ASN and netblock support in the upcoming MirrorManager 1.4. It should be > in production for Fedora and EPEL this month. After that stabilizes, it > should be perfect for CentOS. > > Warren > Is the fastestmirror plugin default on CentOS? If so, that breaks the preferred ordering method of MirroManager, but we could make a simple modification to fastestmirror to solve that issue. We can have MirrorManager put a particular keyword in the topmost comment. If fastestmirror sees that keyword, it knows the mirrorlist is ordered purposefully and just uses it. So the majority of clients are given random mirrors in their region, and fastestmirror does its connect test. Other clients are given from MirrorManager a preferred mirror, then fastestmirror knows not to question it. If the preferred mirror is down, MirrorManager knows it is down because it does regular crawling, so it wont be displayed as preferred. Then fastestmirror can do its thing on the random list sans preferred. Tiny change to fastestmirror can make all the difference. Warren