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2005 Nov 29
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Yum / Up2date issues and mirror.centos.org
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1. mirror.centos.org is a rrdns of several machines, so that we can
distribute the load for CentOS downloads across several servers.
Distributed load is the only way we can serve more than 1 TiB per day
for updates. (That's right, 1 TiB per day, ~30TiB per month, double the
traffic of 3 months ago, 10x the traffic of a year ago).
We had several servers totally maxed out serving updates during the 4.2
release cycle. Did I mention server donations :)
There are other ways to distribute the load other than rrdns ... like a
load balancer ... but t...