3. The mirrorlist cgi does the following:
- take repomd.xml from the canonical mirror at
redhat.com - get
timestamp from inside file of the primary.xml.gz entry
- downlowd repomd.xml from each of the mirrors and compare this value
- only mirrors where the value is the same are kept
this sounds interesting... would there be interest to also feed these
results to a dns server, so that mirrors.fedora.<something> is a
rotating dns between all "validated" mirrors? (this assumes the same
location of the files on all these mirrors obviously)
dns probably scales better than a cgi ....