Greg Knaddison wrote: > > On of our systems got infected by a botnet-like system, which caused us > > to reformat it. > > We installed Fedora 4 on a new IP address, so we could test everything > > before putting it back to the old IP. Yum worked fine at that time, > > providing us with updates to the latest packages. > > After the change to the old IP, we were unable to use Yum. We also > > aren't able to connect to the RedHat site, which appears to be the same > > IP to which Yum connects. This is what we get : > > Yum Version: 2.4.0 > > COMMAND: yum -d 50 > > Installroot: / > > Setting up Update Process > > Setting up repositories > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released > > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released > > > > Any idea what's going on ? Is RedHat blocking certain hosts ? > > > > What makes you think that RedHat is blocking your IP? What does wget > on a file on that site get you? How about network connectivity to > other systems? > That said, I think that it's probably more of a problem with your conf > file than anything else. Maybe you could post that somewhere for us > to look at. That's precisely the problem : I can't connect to RedHat via the web either. I can go anywhere, except for 209.132.177.50 And that host is not in my iptables or something like that. Any suggestions are welcome.