Per Qvindesland wrote: > Are you behind a proxy? I don't think so. My server is connected to an ADSL modem which links it to my ISP. I don't know if the modem (Cayman 3341) could be acting as a proxy server? I'm running shorewall on the server, but I get the same response when I turn it off. As I said, it seems to me that mirrors.fedoraproject.org for some reason does not like my system. I can connect to this site, and download files from it, eg index.html, static/css/fedora.css, etc. It is just the files mirrorlist and metalink which I cannot see. I never get this problem in any other context, as far as I know. > 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. > --------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin