Re: mirrorlist server selection

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adrian Reber wrote:

> I am not sure I formulated my problem correctly, so I have written a
> patch that does what I want. Maybe this helps to describe my problem
> better. To test it I have created a DNS entry (mirrors.lisas.de) which
> points to four IPs:
>
> $ host mirrors.lisas.de
> mirrors.lisas.de has address 129.143.116.10
> mirrors.lisas.de has address 134.108.44.54
> mirrors.lisas.de has address 88.198.59.188
> mirrors.lisas.de has address 129.143.116.9
>
> Two of those entries are working mirrorlists, one has a webserver which
> does know nothing about mirrorlist and returns a 404 (129.143.116.10) and one
> does not even have anything running on port 80 (129.143.116.9). I am
> using following repo file:
>

okay  so why don't you remove the 2 broken ones from dns and your problem 
goes away?

or better yet - just have a single non-round-robin'd url for the 
mirrorlist itself.

-sv