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

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:31:47PM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> transparently using mirrormanager with local mirrors behind NAT was
> nicely solved here:
> 
> http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru-guides/YUM-automatic-local-mirror/
> 
> F11 uses metalinks by default, which break the scripts on the URL
> above. Does anyone have a better alternative? Or is there another way
> to divert yum updates behind a natted network for >= F11 w/o touching 
> the clients?

If the NAT has a static public IP, simply add a private mirror in
mirrormanager, with the netmask of the static public IP.

Of course, one could update Dax's scripts to handle /metalink URLs.
At least until yum finally grows https cert checking...  At that
point, they'll break permanently.  His suggestion for a yum plugin to
do WPAD would be welcome then.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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