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[Mike McGrath]

On 11/8/06, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/10/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [core]
> > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releasever&arch=$basearch
>
> If I load this, eg.
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-5&arch=i386 I
> get:
>
> # repo = core-5 country = GB arch = i386
> http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/
> http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/
>
>
> I haven't been following the developments of the mirrorlist, but I
> have picked up that itis dynamic, depending upon location. I'm in the
> UK - so the above seems about right. I'm curious though as to why the
> other UK mirrors are never returned (eg. mirrorservice.org.uk and
> mirror.ac.uk) ? Is there somewhere we should report unlisted mirrors
> to?
>
> Jonathan.
>

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releasever&arch=$basearch&showinvalid=1

You can also specify 'country=global'

            -Mike