On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:18:42PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> John Reiser wrote:
>> ... spring break on many academic calendars in the US, time for the final
>> rounds of the US NCAA college basketball tournament, ...
> Try the European mirrors then. :-)
yum, preupgrade, and related FedoraProject software often does its best
to hide such details from the user, and to make it inconvenient to choose
anything other than the default round-robin by geo-IP. [jigdo is an exception.]
The mirror choice algorithm is far more complicated than round-robin
by geo-IP. Of course, it isn't perfect, but is a decent
approximation most of the time.
For instance, by default yumdownloader generates no record of which
mirror
you get upon HTTP 302 [or 303] redirection from the master mirror.
In practice you see the ultimate URL only if the connection [attempt]
actually times out.
Patches or enhancement bugs filed suggesting ways in which the tools
you're interested would be more verbose are welcome.
This enables the mirror administrator(s) to hide from users in most
cases of poor service (missing file, stale file, slower than
necessary, ...)
This, my friend, is just a pot shot. We're _lucky_ to have so many
mirrors, and in most cases, mirrors with very responsive
administrators; not to mention the Infrastructure team that keeps it
all humming. If you have genuine problems with particular mirrors,
feel free to let the folks in #fedora-admin know, or file a ticket in
the Fedora Infrastructure trac
(
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure) with the details.
Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler, and proud of it! :-)
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com &
www.dell.com/linux