donavan nelson wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 09:41 -0500, William Warren wrote: >> >>> I am trying to update a newly installed server and this is what i >>> get when i yum update: >>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >>> Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons >>> retrygrab() failed for: >>> >>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info >>> Executing failover method >>> failover: out of servers to try >>> Error getting file >>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info >> >> >> >> You should be able to open the above header.info file in your browser >> from that machine ... can you? > > > Also, wget or links could be tried if running on a text install. > >> It seems your network card is not working or you can't resolve the name >> mirror.centos.org. I just checked and that is the correct path and file >> name for update. > > > Or your firewall is blocking http access, default gateway isn't set, > there are a number of possibilities. > There was an issue yesterday with the header.nfo file. I know, because when I ran an rsync in the middle of the day, I could no longer use my local yum repo. I had to re-rsync about 30 minutes later, and then I was able to install what I needed to. Ben