Hello folks Do any know why this problem is coming up *ERROR /etc/yum.repos.d# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons Any idea to the solution: * I have a server CentOS 5.5 and this is the content of my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo # CentOS-Base.repo # # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Niji Ogunbameru IT Systems Experian pH * Royalty Studios | 105-109 Lancaster | Road London | W11 1QF T: 44 (0) 207 9859782 | M: 44 (0) 795 9716201 http://www.experian.co.uk| http://www.phgroup.com On 01/06/2011 07:46 PM, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote: > /me is curious too, as author of MirrorManager. :-) > > -- > Matt Domsch > Technology Strategist > Dell | Office of the CTO > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nick Olsen > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:47 PM > To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror question > > I'm in and out of here all the time, But I remember talk of a new-er mirroring system being in the works. With some functionality like fedora has where you can redirect your local subnets to your server, if its up to date. > Anyone else remember this? Correct me if I'm wrong. > > I know currently, You have to change the repo.conf file for each machine to point it locally. > > On 1/6/2011 1:39 PM, Andre Dault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering, how does the "fastest mirror" algorithm work? >> >> In my particular case, being a campus with large address pool I think it could be interesting if we could somehow force users from our subnet to use my mirror. >> >> André Dault >> Analyste principal en informatique / Senior Computing Analyst Faculté >> des Sciences / Faculty of Science Universté d'Ottawa/Universty of >> Ottawa >> >> adault at uOttawa.ca >> 613-562-5800 x 6086 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20110317/3f3d2068/attachment-0005.html>