Quoting Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>: > 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 well I did disable addons and then was able to do the update. Then when I checked for available updates I got only three showing, all listed as epel. For the moment those updates are of no special importance so I'm happy to deal with other problems. Nonetheless I remained puzzled by both the original problem and the fix. Dave > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti