> > > > 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. In the event that the central site or network is inaccessible then the entire system stops. Even if there is new data on all/any mirror. That's a good reason to have multiple mirrors populated in the config file. or you can use a mirrorlist file but put it ON the machine. -sv