FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> If the mirrorlist returned didn't go out of its way to defeat
>>> caching proxies there would be a lot less reason for the
>>> servers to be overloaded.
>> You make it sound like as if this is a deliberate thing.
> 
> Isn't it deliberate that you make the URL's to the same package
> different every time someone requests them?  For caching proxies
> to work, the URL needs to stay the same.

You probably are talking about the old system now. The new mirror list 
which started this thread or what is default in FC6 doesnt work this way.

Rahul