[CentOS-mirror] Mirror question

Rex Dieter

rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jan 6 18:57:48 UTC 2011


On 01/06/2011 12:39 PM, Andre Dault wrote:

> I was wondering, how does the "fastest mirror" algorithm work?

Very simple/naive, compares ping response times, see 
/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt for last-used values (which I sometimes 
tweak by hand to get mirrors I want).

-- Rex



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