[CentOS] Mirror URL Times Out

Wed Jun 15 17:25:51 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Torintino T wrote:
>   Dear All,
> 
>  I am using Centos 4.7, i have an issue when i run yum update, the URL
> times-out even when i browse it on firefox
> 
> #yum update php
>  Setting up Update Process
>  Setting up repositories
>  http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
>  12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
>  Trying other mirror.
>  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update
>  failure: repodata/repomd.xml from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to
>  try.
>  E rror: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from update: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors
>  to try.
> 
> i tried yum clean all, but still the same.
> do you have any advice please.
> 
>  Thank you
> 
You can go to http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 
(mirror list) and select some other mirror until you solve your 
connection problem. Update to 4.9 and see if problem persists.

Also check you system for signs of security breach.

try tracerouting http://mirror.centos.org, and 64.94.65.2 (IP of the 
mirror.centos.org) at least for me, since it could be DNS issue.

Ljubomir