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) --------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin