[CentOS] yum errors

[Wes James]

> On Dec 8, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 08:24:34AM -0700, Wes James wrote:
>> 
> <please trim your replies>
> ...
>> 
>> nslookup works:
>> 
>> Non-authoritative answer:
>> Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
>> Address: 108.61.16.227
>> Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
>> Address: 84.22.180.89
>> Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
>> Address: 88.150.173.218
>> 
>> but wget fails??
>> 
>> $ wget "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock"
>> --2015-12-08 08:04:15--  http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock
>> Resolving mirrorlist.centos.org... 199.187.126.90
>> Connecting to mirrorlist.centos.org|199.187.126.90|:80... 
>> failed: Connection timed out.
>> Retrying.
> why does your wget hit 199.187.126.90 when your DNS says
> 108.61.16.227|84.22.180.89|88.150.173.218 ?
> 
> Bad http proxy in the way?
> 


I just tried wget on my virtual box vm and it shows:

wget "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os"
--2015-12-08 09:12:33--  http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os
Resolving mirrorlist.centos.org... 108.61.16.227, 84.22.180.89, 88.150.173.218, ...
Connecting to mirrorlist.centos.org|108.61.16.227|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: “index.html?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os”

    [ <=>                                                                     ] 512         --.-K/s   in 0s      

2015-12-08 09:12:34 (96.8 MB/s) - “index.html?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os” saved [512]



Why is wget resolving to 199.187….. on these other systems?

and nslookup shows the correct host resolution:

$ nslookup mirrorlist.centos.org

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
Address: 88.150.173.218
Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
Address: 84.22.180.89
Name:	mirrorlist.centos.org
Address: 108.61.16.227

Thanks,

-wes