R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, donavan nelson wrote: > >> This is a really BAD idea. Mirrors come and go, mirrors stop >> rsyncing, but have outdated data. I'd rather have a centralized >> authority hand out a "best guess" mirror than have someone pick a >> mirror at setup and thing they are covered. > > > ... but with a central authority, scaling problems then appear > only providing the suggested mirror to use....this is nothing more then and a websever.... Shoot even the WBEL guy is having yum hit his tiny T1 to get the mirror list. .dn