[CentOS] Mirror failure

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:42:28PM -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 08/14/2013 05:02 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:


> > On 14/08/13 21:57, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >>>>> 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`
> >>>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> Just curious, would this apply to any "other" rpm-based Linux distro? as 
> well....(Fedora....Scientific?....etc?)

It should work with any distribution that uses yum.

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