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    Hello folks<br>
    Do any know why this problem is coming up <br>
    <b>ERROR<br>
      /etc/yum.repos.d# yum update<br>
      Loaded plugins: fastestmirror<br>
      Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>
      Could not retrieve mirrorlist
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&amp;arch=x86_64&amp;repo=addons">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&amp;arch=x86_64&amp;repo=addons</a>
      error was<br>
      [Errno 4] IOError: &lt;urlopen error (111, 'Connection
      refused')&gt;<br>
      Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons<br>
      <br>
      Any idea to the solution:<br>
    </b><br>
    I have a server CentOS 5.5 and this is the content of my
    /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo<br>
    <br>
    # CentOS-Base.repo<br>
    #<br>
    # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and
    the<br>
    # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to
    and<br>
    # geographically close to the client.&nbsp; You should use this for
    CentOS updates<br>
    # unless you are manually picking other mirrors.<br>
    #<br>
    # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can
    try the<br>
    # remarked out baseurl= line instead.<br>
    #<br>
    #<br>
    <br>
    [base]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Base<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=os">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=os</a><br>
    #baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    #released updates<br>
    [updates]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=updates">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=updates</a><br>
#baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    #packages used/produced in the build but not released<br>
    [addons]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=addons">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=addons</a><br>
#baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    #additional packages that may be useful<br>
    [extras]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=extras">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=extras</a><br>
#baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages<br>
    [centosplus]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=centosplus">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=centosplus</a><br>
#baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    enabled=0<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    #contrib - packages by Centos Users<br>
    [contrib]<br>
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib<br>
mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=contrib">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=contrib</a><br>
#baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/</a><br>
    gpgcheck=1<br>
    enabled=0<br>
    gpgkey=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5</a><br>
    <br>
    <br>
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    On 01/06/2011 07:46 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Matt_Domsch@Dell.com">Matt_Domsch@Dell.com</a> wrote:
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cite="mid:1B9798A3396AB0429545ADFEA20793151056A63786@AUSX7MCPS302.AMER.DELL.COM"
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      <pre wrap="">/me is curious too, as author of MirrorManager. :-)

--
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO

-----Original Message-----
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a>] On Behalf Of Nick Olsen
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:47 PM
To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror question

I'm in and out of here all the time, But I remember talk of a new-er mirroring system being in the works. With some functionality like fedora has where you can redirect your local subnets to your server, if its up to date.
Anyone else remember this? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I know currently, You have to change the repo.conf file for each machine to point it locally.

On 1/6/2011 1:39 PM, Andre Dault wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">Hello,

I was wondering, how does the "fastest mirror" algorithm work?

In my particular case, being a campus with large address pool I think it could be interesting if we could somehow force users from our subnet to use my mirror.

Andr&eacute; Dault
Analyste principal en informatique / Senior Computing Analyst Facult&eacute; 
des Sciences / Faculty of Science Universt&eacute; d'Ottawa/Universty of 
Ottawa

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:adault@uOttawa.ca">adault@uOttawa.ca</a>
613-562-5800 x 6086


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