why doesn't yum stay on the continent

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:02, James Wilkinson wrote:

> >       Does anyone know why when yum chooses a mirror to download from that
> > it doesn't attempt to use a mirror on the same continent as the user? That
> > would seem to be a far more efficient use of the yum mirrors than handing
> > US users off to a mirror in New Zealand.
> 
> There are a number of reasons.
> 
> The most prosaic one is that it isn't trivial for yum to work out which
> continent a user is on. So no-one has written code to do *quite* this
> (but see later).

The Centos folks claim that theirs will pick a working nearby mirror
based on the IP of the client.

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  Les Mikesell
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