Instant Mirror Status...?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 19:10:12 UTC 2008


James Cassell wrote:
> Maybe I'm not seeing the entire problem, but couldn't you just cache the 
> response from mirrormanager, in addition to caching the packages?  
> Wouldn't everyone then get the same list, and by default, choose the 
> first (and thus the same) mirror in the list?

That's probably the simplest solution.  Mirrormanager could just set 
appropriate expires/cache-control headers for some value of appropriate. 
   But, if you add new mirrors, clients behind proxies wouldn't get them 
in the list until it expires and  if some client behind the proxy gets a 
copy in a browser and does a refresh it would pull in a different-order 
copy.

By the way, is there a handy way to tell yum not to try ftp:// urls from 
the list?  Sometimes I am behind a squid proxy that will handle them and 
sometimes I have to use a microsoft isa proxy that won't and there are 
annoyingly long timeouts for the failures.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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