[CentOS] mirrors down?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 08/05/2010 02:44 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Just went to update a couple systems this morning, and first one machine
>> took nearly 15 min to find the mirrors (and it should be getting it all
>> from our own repo, actually), and then the next one showed about 8-10
>> mirrors down, including Harvard and VCU. Anyone know what's going on?
>
> debugging yum issues is almost always best done from your local client
> instance. Running yum with -d9 would be a good place to start from.

I do not believe it's a local yum issue. I tried to point firefox to
http://mirror.harvard.edu, not exactly an obscure mirror, and it times
out. As I work for an agency of the US gov't, and we have *fat* pipes,
it's not likely to be on our end.

>From yum -d9 update:
<snip>
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
<...>
http://mirror.umoss.org/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.vcu.edu/pub/gnu%2Blinux/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.seas.harvard.edu/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://mirrors.rit.edu/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12]
Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://download.fedora.sr.unh.edu/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.

And it's still going. What we have here is a massive problem with the
mirrors.

So, any *real* idea what's going on?

        mark