Bug 212954

Summary: New dynamic mirror list stops yum in case of invalid mirror
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bruno A. Crespo <bruno>
Component: fedora-releaseAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
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Description Bruno A. Crespo 2006-10-30 10:35:34 UTC
Description of problem:

The new dynamic mirror list seems to assign to you a mirror based on 
geographic information.  It always assign to you the same mirror and only a 
mirror, if this mirror has problems it's impossible to use yum.

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How reproducible:

For me, always.  The script http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist always 
assign to me ftp.cica.es, that have some problem with their configuration, 
every time I make yum install eclipse-jdt, I get:

ftp://ftp.cica.es/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/eclipse-rcp-3.2.1-4.f                                                                             
c6.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 Too many connections (1)                                                                              
from this IP
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/eclipse-rcp-3.2.1-4.fc6.i386.rpm from core: [Errno                                                                              
256] No more mirrors to try.

But this can be a serious problem.

The script must return, at least, 2 mirrors, to make the system works in the 
case of server problems.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install from Spain
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Actual results:

No more mirrors to try

Expected results:

A Second mirror, at least.

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Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2006-12-15 17:31:10 UTC
We've done lots of work on this, does this still pose a problem?