skipping a mirror

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> El día Friday, June 08, 2012 a las 11:21:59PM -0600, Warren Block escribió:
>
>> Is there an easy way to skip a particular distfile mirror that, say,
>> wants to timeout forever for Gnome files?
>
> You could redirect its FQN via an entry in /etc/hosts to an IP addr
> where the request gives connection refused.

Perfect!  Simple, elegant, and I even have a special zone for certain 
hosts already.  Thanks!