> 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? > > Tru > I started poking around in /etc/resolve.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts and guess what I found in /etc/hosts? 199.187.126.90 mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org/> Not sure why the previous admin did this. Is it an old mirror IP?? I commented that line out and now yum update is working. Insanity reigns….. Thanks for everyones help :) -wes