[CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?

[Drew Weaver]

Perhaps he has an invalid URL specified only for addons and not base/updates?

thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:17 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?

On 05/20/2010 09:57 PM, Ryan Manikowski wrote:
>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=addons error was
>> [Errno 4] IOError:<urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
>> resolution')>
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons
>
> Disable the 'addons' repo and your problem will be resolved.

That sounds like a bit of very random advice, given that Dave's dns is 
not responding - how would disabling the addons repo have an impact on 
Dave's nameserver ?

- KB

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