[Leaplist] yum problems/questions ....

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Dec 19, 2007 3:17 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 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" ....

I am not sure I trust that plugin anyway.  It would make more sense if
there were a reasonable round robin system for the mirrors, weighed on
the amount of bandwidth they provide for the mirror.  Perhaps one
day...

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