On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:00 -0500, mw-list-yum@xxxxxx wrote: > I get > > # yum info yum > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] (113, 'No route to host') > > I get the following clue when I use ncftp: > > # ncftp moni.msci.memphis.edu > NcFTP 3.1.6 (Aug 25, 2003) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/). > Connecting to 141.225.11.87... > Welcome to the FTP service on moni.msci at the University of Memphis. > Logging in... > Login successful. > Logged in to moni.msci.memphis.edu. > ncftp / > cd pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/headers/ > Directory successfully changed. > ncftp ...core/2/i386/os/headers > ls -l header.info > connect failed: No route to host. > Falling back to PORT instead of PASV mode. > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 111939 May 13 11:11 header.info > > The ftp server is running FC2 with vsftpd. do you have iptables running on the client? if you disable them does the problem disappear? -sv