On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > That would also be fine if it always gave the same list in the same > order when asked through the same proxy - It will until it next checks the mirrors - which happen approx hourly - and then the mirrors within a cc are used randomly so as not to overload any particular mirror with al the traffic. > if the client walks the list > in order. It does - unless you use fastestmirror plugin > Or if the URL to get this list was always the same and > it is marked cachable for some time. It is always the same - mabe it needs marking as cachable ?? > You don't have to control a machine to give out it's IP in a DNS > response. You only have to arrange for it accept the name as a vhost > and map the document root to the top of your mirror tree. That still > may be a lot to ask but it is a very different question. It is more than most mirrors will do - especially when they have varying format urls > The nature of your product is such that the odds are good that vast > numbers of those boxes are located in some small number of places that > would only pull one copy of an update if you didn't go out of your way > to force each machine to get its own. But at least we get to see how many machines are out there :) Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.