On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:36, Jeff Ratliff wrote: > Is there a reason there is no "failovermethod=" line on this and > updates_released? > What does yum do by default if the first mirror fails? The man page says yum's default is round robin (man yum.conf) which picks a random mirror from the list and then moves on to the next one if there is a failure. This is a good method for such a highly used program as yum will spread the load over all those servers (iff it truely is "random"). Cheers, Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 13:06:26 up 4:12, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.01 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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