Why do I always get fedora.tu-chemnitz.de as first mirror?

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 15:02:03 UTC 2008


On 11/09/2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Christoph Höger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> mirrors.fedoraproject.org states:
>>
>>> This list is dynamically generated every hour, listing only up-to-date
>>> mirrors.
>>
>> But in fact it is not. There is no .newkey folder. That would be ok, if
>> just could pick another mirror. But how would I do that without having
>> to modify my yum configuration (I know, I _could_ use baseurl, but a
>> mirrorlist is a fine thing)?
>>
>> This question is important only because I could update the expected
>> large chunk at my work-LAN with about 17MB/s download speed.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> christoph
>>
>>
> Dumb question - are you using the fastmirror yum extension?

This happened several times to me (on f8) and I'm not using fastest-mirror ...

> Mikkel
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>
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