[mirror-admin] Redirecting Rawhide to Private Mirrors

[Andrew McNabb]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:46:48AM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> 
> The MirrorManager reports that mirrors.cs.byu.edu is up to date, so I am
> surprised that yum isn't connecting to it.  I'm pretty inexperienced
> with mirror administration, so I'm not sure what else to check.  Am I
> doing something wrong?

A private response to this question was able to give me some useful
suggestions (thanks!).  I did a wget on
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=i386 and
found that mirrors.cs.byu.edu was indeed listed at the top of the mirror
list.  I then looked at /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and found that
mirrors.cs.byu.edu is considered slower than several other hosts.  This
is very strange because the private mirror is orders of magnitude faster
whether measured by latency or bandwidth (the reason I noticed there was
a problem is that downloads were so slow).  What does fastestmirror use
to determine how fast a host is?

Thank you.

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