[CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

[ken]

On 06/29/2011 03:42 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> ken wrote:
>> Good thought.  But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
>> nothing blocking it.
>>
>> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
>> on the problem machine.  But it's been working fine for years and
>> there's been no changes to yum.conf.
>>
>> I've upped the debug level (to 4).  I'll run that awhile and see what I get.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
> Is it possible you have DNS errors on that machine?
> 
> Ljubomir

That would be a possibility, but I'm able to both ping and telnet:80
from the problem box to the mirrors.  Due to the structure of the IP
stack, a DNS error would have shown up with those other commands.