[CentOS] Mirror failure

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 08/14/2013 11:29 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:42:28PM -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>> On 08/14/2013 05:02 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>
>>> On 14/08/13 21:57, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>>>> I was getting:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>>>>>>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
>>>>>>> 'mirror01.th.ifl.net'"
>>>>>>> Trying other mirror.
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>>>>>>       You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem`
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You *did* do yum clean all, correct?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No. Was that all it took? Of the thousand answers found on Google that
>>>>> didn't work, that wasn't mentioned once.
>>>> What happens is that yum caches the mirror addresses, and uses the cached
>>>> addresses, rather than look them up every bloody time. Clearing all,
>>>> including the cache, will force it to look Out There again.
>>>>
>> Just curious, would this apply to any "other" rpm-based Linux distro? as
>> well....(Fedora....Scientific?....etc?)
> It should work with any distribution that uses yum.
>
Ok...cool thanks for the info!!


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