[CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

Fri Feb 27 21:57:32 UTC 2015
Thomas Eriksson <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu>

On 02/27/2015 01:11 PM, Dave Burns wrote:
> Apparently CentOS-7 - Base is failing, what does that mean? How do I
> contact the upstream for the repo? How do I find a working upstream?
> 
> More info from command execution:
> do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 12] Timeout on
> http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> (28, 'Resolving timed out after 30384 milliseconds')
> Trying other mirror.
> 

This has nothing to do with yum.

You are using NIS for name lookup and your NIS server is not responding.

-Thomas