On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Mark Whidby wrote:

> FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:
>>  Hi Troy,
>>
>>  is there a way to log which mirror we use when yum update ?
>>
>>  I have a mirror 2 floors upstair which comme first in my repos :
>>
>>  baseurl=ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> http: //distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> http: //ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> ftp: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> ftp: //linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>>
>>  but I often notice, just doing a 'netstat', that I am using your server
>>  rather
>>  than ours and I'd like to investigate this furter on a longer period
>>  of time. 
>
> Hi,
> If you want to use your own mirrors in preference to the others you need to 
> include
> "failovermethod=priority" in your repo configuration. The default is 
> roundrobin
> which will select one at random from the list.

There is also the yum-fastestmirror package.
I'm only guessing, but from the name it might help.

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