Why do I always get fedora.tu-chemnitz.de as first mirror?

[Christoph Höger]

Am Donnerstag, den 11.09.2008, 09:44 -0500 schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson:
> Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > mirrors.fedoraproject.org states:
> > 
> >> This list is dynamically generated every hour, listing only up-to-date
> >> mirrors.
> > 
> > But in fact it is not. There is no .newkey folder. That would be ok, if
> > just could pick another mirror. But how would I do that without having
> > to modify my yum configuration (I know, I _could_ use baseurl, but a
> > mirrorlist is a fine thing)?
> > 
> > This question is important only because I could update the expected
> > large chunk at my work-LAN with about 17MB/s download speed.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > christoph
> > 
> > 
> Dumb question - are you using the fastmirror yum extension?

Nope. 

I tried it with wget <MIRRORLISTURL> and always got chemnitz as first hit. Nothing against chemnitz, but 
* it is not up2date
* the second hit is

That's a little bit breaking the feature "mirrorlist" isn't it? Or are the fedora discs randomly equipped with a secret sign to distribute the users over the mirrors ;) ?
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