Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[Paul Howarth]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:05, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> 
>>Update lists mirrors; it seems that Yum downloads a fresh list each time 
>>(yuck, I'd rather see the list in an rpm that's updated as needed), so 
>>that should be a quick fix. Once a mirror fixes its problems, relist it.
> 
> 
> Does yum pick a mirror at random now?  I run several machines
> through the same caching http proxy and when I first started it
> seemed like most files would be cached.  Now, with no change at
> my end it seems like there is never a cache hit even when
> another machine just performed the same update. Is there a
> way to force the order of mirror attempts to be the same so
> the cache will work again?

Try adding:

failovermethod=priority

in your yum repo configuration.

Paul.