On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Joshua Andrews wrote: > > > Thank you Jef. > > > > I must say that this is a really big piece of shit! Maybe a simple yum > > update could have solved this problem for thousands of people!!!!!! Maybe? > > It wont. Since you wont be able to get that update without the mirror > list working. If yum had a better mirrorlist selection algorithm, this issue would not have appeared ;) And if yum had a counter part to "apt-get update" the network load would be less, which would make server overloads and DOS/QOS attacks less successful. Ralf
