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RE: [eclipse-mirrors] When to make an internal mirror?

> 
> >	Actually, you just tell us what to use as the internal host mask (for
> > instance, *.pdinc.us) and your internal mirror will be shown 
> > at the top of the list on our download pages and in the 
> > Update manager.
> 	
> Here is where I would have a few questions/statements.
> 
> 1: Our primary "browsing" internet connection is neither 
> static or reverse dns friendly.

Our outbound ip address changes with out notice, can there be a user/password
rsync login?

> 3: Did you say that the (your) mirror list provider will do a 
> reverse dns or ip lookup and provide an automagical mirror list back?
> 4: We have machines without internet access.

Is there a way to hard code a mirror into eclipse?

> 5: Will we have to do some dns voodo here to prevent pinging 
> the (your) mirror list server?
> 6: can we runa mirror list server here?

For Centos we point mirrors.centos.org and mirrorlist.centos.org to our local
mirror server, which emulates the real one. Is this our best bet?

-Jason 

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