Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <[email protected]> said: > download.fedoraproject.org is a redirector. It uses the mirrors found in the > -redirect version of the file (not sure if this is done automatically or > somebody reads the -redirect file and updates some other list for > redirection). Elliot Lee is the person who is managing the redirector, > perhaps he can chime in (I've cc'd him). Theoretically each time you load a > valid url from download.fedoraproject.org it would use a new mirror. Firefox > won't work for testing this, but using links again and again will show that > it does indeed to go different hosts.
Using a server-side redirector seems like a bad idea. It completely defeats the purpose of things like fastestmirror or even giving a user a list of mirrors to choose from. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
