Hi all, I recently wrote for help getting yum to connect to the repos and mentioned that wget was having similar trouble. In case anyone else is having this trouble, I thought id leave a note that I've traced this to a dns issue (at least on my system), i expect it will turnout to be fC4 specific. yum and wget dont see to get dns most of the time, whereas ping does. (see example below). I remember having a problem with firefox not working when I first installed FC4, which also turned out to be it not getting dns's. I dont know enough enough about dns yet to work out what specifically needs fixing, but for now pinging the repos prior to using yum seems to work. here's the example: [root@ORION ~]# wget http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/x86_64/core/repodata/repomd.xml --18:13:52-- http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/x86_64/core/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml.9' Resolving ayo.freshrpms.net... 1.0.0.0 Connecting to ayo.freshrpms.net|1.0.0.0|:80... [root@ORION ~]# ping ayo.freshrpms.net PING ie.freshrpms.net (193.1.193.67) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from apt.sw.be (193.1.193.67): icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=319 ms 64 bytes from apt.sw.be (193.1.193.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=383 ms --- ie.freshrpms.net ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 319.837/351.677/383.518/31.846 ms, pipe 2 [root@ORION ~]# wget http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/x86_64/core/repodata/repomd.xml --18:14:38-- http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/x86_64/core/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml.9' Resolving ayo.freshrpms.net... 193.1.193.67 Connecting to ayo.freshrpms.net|193.1.193.67|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [application/xml] 100%[====================================>] 1,140 --.--K/s 18:14:39 (57.90 KB/s) - `repomd.xml.9' saved [1140/1140] [root@ORION ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories core [1/3] core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
