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

On 17 Jul 2009, at 3:48 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Stephen Harris wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora- 
>>> update.repo
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Any and all suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>> This is a list for CentOS, not Fedora.  You'll get better help if you
>> post to the right lists :-)
>
> Sorry, I should have said that my server is running Centos-5.3.
> If there is a problem on my system, it is at the server.
> I ran wget on the server, and got the same result.
> I also get the same result for EPEL:
> ---------------------------------
> [tim at helen ~]$ sudo yum update
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, protect- 
> packages,
> protectbase
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64  
> error
> was
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: epel
> ---------------------------------
> using the mirrorlist line in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo :
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearchkk
>
> Also wget fails similarly:
> ---------------------------------
> [tim at helen ~]$ wget http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist
> --14:43:39--  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist
> Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122
> Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:80...  
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 14:43:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> ---------------------------------
> This machine is running x86_64 CentOS:
> ---------------------------------
> [tim at helen ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.3 (Final)


It does work for me i get the mirrorlist when i request the url in a  
browser. Try a different host (from the ip's below) as that is a round  
robin address

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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