[Fwd: Re: [Centos] Release of centos-3.3 ISP bill]

Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com
Wed Oct 27 07:07:31 UTC 2004


Peter,

Petr "Qaxi" Klima wrote:

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> Subject:
> Re: [Centos] Release of centos-3.3 ISP bill
> From:
> "Petr \"Qaxi\" Klima" <qaxi at seznam.cz>
> Date:
> Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:56:24 +0200
> To:
> "Greg M. Kurtzer" <greg at runlevelzero.net>
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> To:
> "Greg M. Kurtzer" <greg at runlevelzero.net>
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>> So our mirror list sorta accomplishes the same thing. These were hits 
>> though
>> from mirrors, and from people hitting or syncing to 
>> mirror.caosity.org which
>> is a rrdns pool of mirror servers that we maintain.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Thanks to you and all the other folks who make it possible for us to 
>>> lurk
>>> the lists and utilize your work product.
>>>   
>>
>
> Just  an idea
>
> in release of CentOS-3.3 in packages yum and centos-yumconf there is 
> (centos-)yum.conf file with souch content:
>
> for repositories
> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/*
>
>
> as I see from this:
> # host mirror.centos.org
> mirror.centos.org has address 69.93.142.19
> mirror.centos.org has address 69.93.26.26
> mirror.centos.org has address 69.57.175.50
>
>
> So it means ALL trafic goes to centos.org

 From what I understood, mirror.centos.org is round robined to all 
mirrors as it is. So I fail to understand how the costs are so high now.

Tom



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