On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:59, William Hooper wrote:
> > There's not much you can do about yum. It is even
> > pre-configured so caching proxies don't help with multiple machine
> > updates.
>
> Please, not this old saw again. Haven't you seen the amount of problems
> that come up on the CentOS list because of their round-robin DNS scheme?
> Especially during large updates, which you are proposing to have more of.
That's really a yum problem because it is too dumb to understand
the concept of multiple A records. By comparison, IE isn't bothered
much at all by a few dead sites in the returned list of addresses
so getting it right can't be all that difficult.
With Centos, I only pull one copy into my squid cache and other
machines find it. With fedora, it never matches and clutters my
cache with many copies of the same thing as well as bothering
the mirrors with unneeded traffic.
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Les Mikesell
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