On Thu, February 16, 2006 2:15 pm, Maciej ¯enczykowski said: >> Why not - they are the same old mirrors - all that happens is that yum >> gets a lost of local up to date mirrors for the release/repo/arch from >> the >> mirrorlist server on port 81 - chosen solely so that we can run it on >> the >> same server >> as normal apache on port 80. >> >> If you have fastestmirror plugin enabld yum will then test the mirrors >> and >> use the fastest local connection. >> >> The version of yumex that we have at dev.centos.org alsouses the same >> mirrorlist system. > > Note that using a non-standard port (81) here is an error - many > restrictive > firewalls (or proxies) won't allow such a connection - for example at my > Mom's > work (were I'm now) and my Dad's. Even though it's an outgoing > connection. > > Setup apache virtual hosting, add a new dns name, and use apache's proxy > module > to proxy mirrorlister:80 to localhost:81 > otherwise this will break for a lot of people. > > Cheers, > MaZe. I second that. Several large companies I have worked for only allow 80 and 443 out. Marko