[Yum] mirrorlist server selection

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adrian Reber wrote:
> 
>> I am not sure I formulated my problem correctly, so I have written a
>> patch that does what I want. Maybe this helps to describe my problem
>> better. To test it I have created a DNS entry (mirrors.lisas.de) which
>> points to four IPs:
>>
>> $ host mirrors.lisas.de
>> mirrors.lisas.de has address 129.143.116.10
>> mirrors.lisas.de has address 134.108.44.54
>> mirrors.lisas.de has address 88.198.59.188
>> mirrors.lisas.de has address 129.143.116.9
>>
>> Two of those entries are working mirrorlists, one has a webserver which
>> does know nothing about mirrorlist and returns a 404 (129.143.116.10) 
>> and one
>> does not even have anything running on port 80 (129.143.116.9). I am
>> using following repo file:
>>
> 
> okay  so why don't you remove the 2 broken ones from dns and your 
> problem goes away?
> 
> or better yet - just have a single non-round-robin'd url for the 
> mirrorlist itself.
> 
> -sv
He says in his text that he is SIMULATING the problem by adding 2 false 
DNS entries.

Ljubomir

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