[CentOS] mirrors down?

[Bowie Bailey]

 On 8/5/2010 10:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
> I do not believe it's a local yum issue. I tried to point firefox to
> http://mirror.harvard.edu, not exactly an obscure mirror, and it times
> out. As I work for an agency of the US gov't, and we have *fat* pipes,
> it's not likely to be on our end.
>
> >From yum -d9 update:
> <snip>
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
> <...>
> http://mirror.umoss.org/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
> 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.vcu.edu/pub/gnu%2Blinux/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.seas.harvard.edu/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
> 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirrors.rit.edu/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12]
> Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://download.fedora.sr.unh.edu/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
>
> And it's still going. What we have here is a massive problem with the
> mirrors.
>
> So, any *real* idea what's going on?

No major problems here.  One epel mirror failed, but the next one it
tried worked and everything kept going.

-- 
Bowie