Re: mirrorlist server selection

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:

>
> I don't think the underlying connect() routine will do it for you, but 
> browsers and their associated libraries must do it the hard way.  Try putting 
> a bad and good IP address in DNS for a name and using an assortment of 
> browsers, wget, curl, etc. to access a file at a url that works on the good 
> IP.  With clients that know how to to this, round-robin DNS is a cheap and 
> moderately good failover mechanism as well as providing load balancing among 
> the sites that are working.
>

Understood - it will require a little bit of patching to implement this - 
and it kinda defeats the point.

Seems like with yum's mirrorlist and metalinks functionality you just list 
the individual sites that you have listed in your dns records and it'll 
just work, the same.

-sv