theres no --inet4-only / --inet6-only switch .... also checked up wget man page ... anyways a new development ... i can now download the repomd.xml via wget : simply did wget <filename> and i could d/l it ....wonder why couldnt i do it before .. ? anyways i had tried increasing the timeout time (from 90 sec to 400 sec)in yum.conf, yet i still get the same error... -- Siddharth Seth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060309/9b53663a/attachment-0001.html