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

Mon May 24 19:16:40 UTC 2010
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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