Re: Fedora Core 3

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:51:30PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> But the mirror-list support in up2date sucks just as much as far as
> web proxies as concerned.  If each client makes the decision on which
> server to use by itself, odds are that each one behind the same web
> proxy will be hammering a different server, instead of sharing/reusing
> the downloads.

So hash the mirror choice by the top 3 bytes of the address (making sure
10.0.0 hashes to a big box).