Perhaps he has an invalid URL specified only for addons and not base/updates? thanks, -Drew -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:17 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what? On 05/20/2010 09:57 PM, Ryan Manikowski wrote: >> Could not retrieve mirrorlist >> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=addons error was >> [Errno 4] IOError:<urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name >> resolution')> >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons > > Disable the 'addons' repo and your problem will be resolved. That sounds like a bit of very random advice, given that Dave's dns is not responding - how would disabling the addons repo have an impact on Dave's nameserver ? - KB _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos