I changed mirror and stil have the problem. The file starts downloading, but at 40-60% aborts with a timeout error, no matter what mirror Im using. I have used yum since a lot of time ago with fedora 2 without problems. Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 08:27 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote: > >>Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:09 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote: >> >>>>The proxy is open for that server. I can download the file using wget. >>>>And the problem still persists today. >>>> >>> >>>Yum doesn't work well with transparent proxies >>> >>>you can set proxy info within the etc/yum.conf file ... >>> >>>see "man yum.conf" for proxy info >> >>The same problem. >> > > Ok guys ... mirror.centos.org is a RRDNS set of mirrors that are > controlled by CentOS.org. > > If you are in the US or EU, you probably will be OK using it. > > If you are behind a transparent proxy server, maybe not so well. Also > if you are not in the US or EU you might have timeout issues. > > For anyone having problems, the best thing to do is to move to mirrors > that are closer to you ... > > You can find a mirror at: > > http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 > > These mirrors are not controlled by CentOS, but you may find that you > get better performance by using one of these mirrors ... especially > during a new update set release cycle. > > You would edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (or remark out > those entries in CentOS-Base.repo and add a new .repo file) and change > the baseurl= to point to the new directory on the closest mirrors. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Roger D. Vargas http://dsgp.blogspot.com | Linux, programación, juegos ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es