Andrew Colin Kissa wrote: > 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 Thanks for trying to help. I'm afraid I get the same response from all these IP addresses. My firefox browser says "The requested URL /mirrorlist was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at admin.fedoraproject.org Port 443" while wget says ----------------------------------------- [tim at helen tmp]$ wget http://66.35.62.166/mirrorlist --16:17:01-- http://66.35.62.166/mirrorlist Connecting to 66.35.62.166:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist [following] --16:17:02-- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist Resolving admin.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.120, 152.46.7.222, 66.35.62.166, ... Connecting to admin.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.120|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 16:17:03 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