Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: 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 choi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: 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. Fatestmirror d

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les Mikesell wrote: 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. I've been using ncac

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: 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 choi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
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 make

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
tech wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
Karanbir Singh wrote: You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little w

RE: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tech <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:57 AM: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) > > Me thinks that doesn't work. It works in Sweden. In fact the fastest-mirror thing works better now with the v5.2 than ever before. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91 kb 1:20 kerne