[CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

Wed Jun 29 19:42:40 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

ken wrote:
> Good thought.  But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
> nothing blocking it.
> 
> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
> on the problem machine.  But it's been working fine for years and
> there's been no changes to yum.conf.
> 
> I've upped the debug level (to 4).  I'll run that awhile and see what I get.
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
Is it possible you have DNS errors on that machine?

Ljubomir