Mirrorlist missing mirrors?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> said:
> And what will happen if the server hosting the mirrorlist goes down? :)

It would probably be easy enough for yum (or a plugin) to cache the last
known mirrorlist.

> I can't help with the fastestmirror thing per se, and I know there are
> people who are on the same backbone as a fast mirror and would rather make
> use of that mirror by default. Some people will be helped by GeoIP (slated
> to happen sometime). And perhaps there can be a way for clients to report
> back to the server which mirrors they find fastest, while still allowing
> the server to have a voice in the redirect decision. Let's try to figure
> out the best of both worlds...

Well, what problem was the server-side redirection try to solve?  What
are the cons to having the client choose a mirror instead of the server?

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.