On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > > I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of > mirrors more than a dozen times. > > Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I upgraded just yesterday without > a problem on another machine on the same LAN with no problems > whatsoever. I can ping mirrors fine. > > There were a spate of these errors back in 2006. The fix for many was > to add this line to yum.conf: > > timeout=300 > > So I did that on the machine where yum is having the problem, but the > same errors are returned. > > I would start by trying to telnet to port 80 on these mirrors, see if it can establish a connection, if not, who's blocking it, iptables, etc. -- Giovanni Tirloni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110629/a1bcda9e/attachment-0005.html>