[Leaplist] yum problems/questions ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> Is your ISP on the official mirror list, or included in the Fedora
> mirrors?  If it is not then it is unlikely that the plugin will look
> for it and use it.  If your ISP has a mirror and it is fast and up to
> date, I would recommend ditching the plugin, and hard set your yum
> config to point to the ISP's mirror.
>
> As for the timeouts... well, this plugin ensures that the faster
> mirror get more traffic, which might very well cause socket timeouts
> if they get overwhelmed with more connections than they can handle.
>   

Yes, they are, HiWAAY.net. I do have them hand-set in my repos.d 
directory, but the plugin doesn't seem to care. I like your idea, ditch 
the plugin & do it manually & will implement that forthwith. I was 
mostly curious if the plugin would basically duplicate that result 
automatically, & the answer seems to be "No it doesn't" ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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