At 11:10 PM +0530 10/25/06, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>> If the mirrorlist returned didn't go out of its way to defeat >>>> caching proxies there would be a lot less reason for the >>>> servers to be overloaded. >>> You make it sound like as if this is a deliberate thing. >> >> Isn't it deliberate that you make the URL's to the same package >> different every time someone requests them? For caching proxies >> to work, the URL needs to stay the same. > >You probably are talking about the old system now. The new mirror list >which started this thread or what is default in FC6 doesnt work this way. That's surprising! I thought I'd read that it didn't remember who was calling, and only looked at the current list of up-to-date mirrors and the caller's (Geo-)IP, returning the results in a shuffled order. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
