At 5:26 PM -0700 10/24/06, norm wrote: >Apart from investigating each site it is in some cases a challenge to >find the nearest download site. If the site has the name of a >university in the address it is relatively easy to determine the >general area of the server but for sites with other names it is more of >a challenge to determine the location. Probably the quickest and >simplest way to determine the mirror site closest is if there was a map >indicating the approximate locations. Has anyone gone to the trouble >of creating such a map or a form with the web address and the city the >server is located in. AIUI, in FC6, the mirrorlist that yum uses is customized at the server using both a check that the mirrors are up-to-date and a geographical query to provide nearby mirrors. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
