[Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] Testing Summary: 19 November 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand

[Thomas C Gilliard]

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On 12/04/2011 03:32 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 06:27:41PM -0500, John Watlington wrote:
>> At least your ISP isn't nasty enough to hijack DNS requests to
>> alternate servers, like the satellite ones.     How about using the IP
>> addresses of a real mirror in yum.repos.d instead of DNS names ?
> Hmm, I hadn't thought that would work, because most HTTP servers these
> days are Apache virtual hosts, so they need the host name portion of the
> URL sent to them in the GET request.  I might give it a try next time I
> need to use yum.
>