On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:57 -0700, Francis X. Maier wrote: > Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I haven't yet succeeded in > updating or downloading anything with yum. > > I repeatedly get a "[Errno104] Connection reset by peer" notice. > > What gives? It must be something simple I'm overlooking. > your network connection is probably being transparently proxied by some evil force. add keepalive=0 to [main] in /etc/yum.conf and see if it gets better. -sv