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

[James Cameron]

What are you trying to say, Thomas?

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:47:58PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora&country=global
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora&country=global
> 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.

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James Cameron
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