On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:00:16AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > Awesome. I wonder if CentOS 5's new fastest mirror yum plugin could be > made to do something like this.
The fastestmirror plugin actually doesn't work very well. I submitted a patch on Bugzilla a week or two ago to vastly approve this, but it hasn't been incorporated yet. The current version just times how long it takes to do a TCP handshake. My patch makes it time how long it takes to download a specific file. Anyway, fastestmirror is definitely experimental. > Is there any way to have Fedora look to an internal mirror (say private > on my 192.168.x.x network)? Yes. On admin.fedoraproject.org, there's a thing called MirrorManager. Once you have a mirror set up, you register it with the MirrorManager and give it the range of IP addresses that should be redirected to your mirror. In the case of a private internal mirror, you just give it the address or range of the public NAT addresses (and there's a "private" box you can check so that you won't show up in the public mirror lists). When Fedora gets a request, it looks at the IP address of the incoming request, finds the corresponding mirror entry (if any), and sends back the mirror hostname. This hostname can be completely private to your network. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
