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.