Network guru help sought please

[Timothy Murphy]

Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:

>> On the other hand, on my CentOS machine, the lines
>> ----------------------------------------
>> 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&re
>> po=os
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>> ----------------------------------------
>> work fine as they are.
> 
> I know for one thing that if your two systems are using different URLs to
> connect to their repositories, then it is not a good measure to compare 
them
> against each other to determine if something is working or not.

I'm not sure what you are saying.
I know the Fedora mirrorlist is not being interpreted properly,
while the Centos mirrorlist is, both on the same system (CentOS).

I'm trying to work out why this is.

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