Am 06.01.11 19:57, schrieb Rex Dieter: > 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). It at least does a connect() to the host in question. Ralph