[mirror-admin] private mirrors behind NAT and F11 (gurulabs scripts)

[Chris Schanzle]

On 06/04/2009 06:22 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>   
>> Dax's scripts are ugly hacks prone to breaking.  You should be using 
>> mirrormanager to make yum's mirrorlist simply do the right thing no 
>> matter where you are.
>>     
>
> That's great, unless you have a dynamic address... which, guess what, is
> actually more common than you'd think (mirror behind a dynamic address.)
>
> Being able to set a mirror map via DHCP or something else would really
> be extremely useful.
>   

Without knowing the mirrormanager back-end implications, a great start 
would be the ability to enter a site-local hostblock of a hostname, not 
just IP, for dynamic address users (I use dyndns and a client app to 
update my DNS whenever my IP changes).  When a hostname is used, a "/32" 
could be assumed.

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