[CentOS] Mirror failure

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 08/14/2013 05:02 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 14/08/13 21:57, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Not a hit on Google concerning this. Try it.
>
> Thanks for the info,
>
> Cheers,
>
>      Phil...
>
Just curious, would this apply to any "other" rpm-based Linux distro? as 
well....(Fedora....Scientific?....etc?)


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