The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.repo reads: mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released- f$releasever&arch=$basearch As far as I can see, this means that yum is looking for the file metalink at mirrors.fedoraproject.org ? If I try "sudo yum update" I get: ----------------------------------- [tim at elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, auto-update-debuginfo, basearchonly, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter- : data, keys, list-data, merge-conf, post-transaction-actions, presto, priorities, protect-packages, : protectbase, refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, remove- with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves, : tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again ----------------------------------- Adding --noplugins does not help: ----------------------------------- [tim at elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum --noplugins update Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again ----------------------------------- Trying to get the file with wget: ----------------------------------- [tim at elizabeth ~]$ wget https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink --2009-07-17 13:04:41-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122 Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443... connected. ERROR: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'. To connect to mirrors.fedoraproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check- certificate'. Unable to establish SSL connection. ----------------------------------- Adding --no-check-certificate does not seem to help: ----------------------------------- [tim at elizabeth ~]$ wget --no-check-certificate https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink --2009-07-17 13:06:22-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122 Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443... connected. WARNING: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-07-17 13:06:23 ERROR 404: Not Found. ----------------------------------- When I look at the http traffic on my server with wireshark the file-request seems to be properly sent, but the file is not found. The symptoms seem to me (no http expert) to suggest that there is some condition for seeing this file that my system is not fulfilling. Any and all suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin