seth vidal escreveu: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:41 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > >> Joelle Tegwen wrote: >> >>> I'm not able to connect to the repositories. This just started recently >>> and it's happening to me both at home (FC4) and at work (FC5). >>> >>> I spent a great deal of time at home researching options and trying to >>> update repository files all to no avail. >>> Since it happened to both machines at once I'm wondering if there was a >>> conflict that was created in some automatic update (I have the auto up >>> dater on for both machines.) >>> >> [snip] >> >>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core >>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras >>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates >>> >> This is a rather frequent occurrence. Yum uses a method of looking up >> hostnames (gethostbyname in Python) which often fails, even when the >> site is actually accessible. >> >> Michael Stenner posted a suggestion to use /etc/nsswitch.conf (in reply >> to my post in February (see thread "Re: [Yum] dag repo problems"), but >> I wasn't able to work out what to do with it. >> >> > Actually the above errors have nothing to do with yum. > They are because fedora.redhat.com is down right now and the mirrorlist > url is not accessible. > > -sv > > This is definitely OT but it occurs to me that a trivial improvement to the Fedora infrastructure would be to have a few reliable mirrors of the mirror lists (the ones for yum, not the ones for human eyes) ready for times when a superman vilain, aka a Fedora release, strikes... Right now the only options seems to be start guessing about a good mirror (which my experience tells me is a rather strange function of time). -- Jo?o Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos Departamento de Matem?tica Instituto Superior T?cnico Lisboa mailto:jmatos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
