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