Perhaps he has an invalid URL specified only for addons and not base/updates?
thanks, -Drew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:17 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?
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
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