In order to back out the changes after using the file you sent, I had to rpm -e yum, then reinstall. I don't know why that is, but it may help you in your search. The easiest way to test is to change the yum.conf file to some non-existant host. Michael Stenner wrote: >On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:53:22PM -0400, Joseph Tate wrote: > > >>Much nicer thanks. >> >>They are the same message by the way, unresolvable host because of no >>network connection or bad DNS/hostname. >> >> > >Well, I'm glad that fixes it, but I'm still a little frustrated that I >couldn't recreate it :) It may not be worth the time, though. That >is CLEARLY an error that httplib can throw, so we should handle it. > >Pending the nod from the almighty seth, I'll commit the change. > > -Michael > >