On 09 Jan 2004 17:07:55 -0500 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:28, David Relson wrote: > > Summary: > > > > without keepalive, couldn't get headers > > with keepalive=0, got 1 header and failed on second header. > > For completeness, tried keepalive=1. Failed getting first header. > > And you said you do or do not have a proxy in the way? > > -sv No proxies. I run my own domain, firewall, etc and try to keep life simple, if that's possible :-) FWIW, wget works fine but yum check-update does not (see below): [root@osage tmp]# wget -nd -c http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586//headers/mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr --17:28:20-- http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/headers/mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr => `mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr' Resolving mirrors.usc.edu... done. Connecting to mirrors.usc.edu[128.125.253.59]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2,364 [text/plain] 100%[====================================>] 2,364 2.25M/s ETA 00:00 17:28:21 (2.25 MB/s) - `mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr' saved [2364/2364] [root@osage tmp]# yum check-update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Base Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Contribs Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers retrygrab() failed for: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586//headers/mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586//headers/mindi-0-0.84-1mdk.noarch.hdr [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): [root@osage tmp]#