Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> Almost one hour and only 1.7 of 4.8 m was downloaded
>>
>> This is typical for me getting data from .tw sites.
>
> Then ... find the fastest mirrors and don't use the default.
>
> We can't possibly try to program in thnigs like this on our end.
>
> The fastestmirror script actually makes a connection to the mirrors in
> question, the lower ones should be the best ones. It is possible that
> is not the cause, but we can't test for that.
>
> You can, however, remark out the "mirrorlist=" line and instead add
> several baseurl=<server_path> lines yourself that you want to use.
>
> Then you get updates from where ever you want
Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to
use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if
there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit
files on each machine or coordinate choices.
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Les Mikesell
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