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 > --------------------------------- > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos