[CentOS] Network guru please help: baffled by missing file

[Timothy Murphy]

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64 error
>> was
>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> What does the "host mirrors.fedoraproject.org" command return for you?

Thanks for the reply:
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[tim at helen ~]$ host mirrors.fedoraproject.org
mirrors.fedoraproject.org is an alias for wildcard.fedoraproject.org.
wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 66.35.62.166
wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 80.239.156.215
wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 152.46.7.222
wildcard.fedoraproject.org has address 209.132.176.120
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Incidentally, I forgot to mention that I can get the mirrorlist
without difficulty from my laptop under Windows (Internet Explorer),
using the same CentOS server.

I shall run wireshark on my server,
and see how the requests differ.


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