On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:23:09 -0500 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:19, David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... > > Does this indicate a problem in yum, my configuration, or at the > > mirror? > > I'd guess either: > 1. repository > or > 2. someone put a transparent proxy up w/o telling you and it's timing > out keepalives quickly. > > try 1 first. > > -sv I think I've found the solution! I changed from baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/... to: baseurl=ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/... and yum is happily downloading packages.