Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[William Hooper]

Jay Lee wrote:
> wgetting
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
> shows a list of possible mirrors and I assume yum randomly selects one to
> use each time (resulting in each request behind a proxy hitting a
> different mirror).  What would be ideal is if that url was dynamic and
> returned a single mirror url for yum to use.

You would loose the ability to fail over to another mirror if something
was wrong with that one URL.  Also you would increase load on the
fedora.redhat.com server because it would have to generate this file for
every request rather than serving a static file.

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William Hooper