On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:02, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Does anyone know why when yum chooses a mirror to download from that
> > it doesn't attempt to use a mirror on the same continent as the user? That
> > would seem to be a far more efficient use of the yum mirrors than handing
> > US users off to a mirror in New Zealand.
>
> There are a number of reasons.
>
> The most prosaic one is that it isn't trivial for yum to work out which
> continent a user is on. So no-one has written code to do *quite* this
> (but see later).
The Centos folks claim that theirs will pick a working nearby mirror
based on the IP of the client.
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Les Mikesell
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