On 8/5/2010 10:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > 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? No major problems here. One epel mirror failed, but the next one it tried worked and everything kept going. -- Bowie