Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:29 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > I then manually edited the /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt file to bias
> > the results against the mirror yum was choosing (I made it worst rather
> > than best). Oddly, it again made no difference!
> 
> Doing that, changing the ping times to smaller than all other mirrors, has 
> always worked for me, when I've needed it.

As one would expect, hence the mystery. BTW I assume you meant you
changed them to larger (to bias against certain servers).

poc