[CentOS] Mirror failure

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 14/08/13 21:35, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Phil Dobbin wrote:
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> I was getting:
>>>
>>> `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
>>> 'mirror01.th.ifl.net'"
>>> Trying other mirror.
<snip>
>>> from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>>    You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem`
>>>
>>> every time I ran `sudo yum update'. This happened on Fedora 17 also.
>>> I've had to switch both machines to Ubuntu because I need working
>>> machines.
>>>
>>> I've Googled this extensively & changed my nameservers, commented out
>>> relevant lines in the configs, etc, etc but no luck so far. Ubuntu
>>> works fine & I have no network problems (two HP ProCurves 2124s working
>>> normally over the rest of the network: 17 machines).
>>>
>>> Is there a workaround for this as I need a working CentOS box.
>> You *did* do yum clean all, correct?
>>
> No. Was that all it took? Of the thousand answers found on Google that
> didn't work, that wasn't mentioned once.

Did you try it?
>
> If you could explain why that would work I'd be eternally grateful & all
> ears.

Your google fu needs work. It should have found a zillion hits.

What happens is that yum caches the mirror addresses, and uses the cached
addresses, rather than look them up every bloody time. Clearing all,
including the cache, will force it to look Out There again.

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