Hey! Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I don't know how they do it, but the MySQL download area also has > automated mirror selection that seems to work pretty well for me. Are > we interested enough for me to ask how they do it? > Would be quite academic to drop in something like GeoIP and use that as a refrence tool. For anyone interested : http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country Running / checking the mirror list for update status every 6 hours could be built into the central server, mirror handout should be done on the fly from there. And a setup like mirror.centos.org is redundant enough to not have issues with 1 or even 2 of the machines being down at a given time. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc