[Centos] yum stalls <?>

[skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal)]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:35 -0800, Johnn Tan wrote:
>Ken Godee wrote:
>> Ditto....
>> 
>> Seems to have just started when I did an update this
>> last weekend. Took about 1/2 hour just to download
>> header info, previous to last weekend never had this problem.
>
>I've always had the problem, I've almost come to just accept it as a yum 
>thing. It happened to me all the time on FC2, too.
>
>Though it is true that this past weekend seems to have been particularly 
>bad.

It's not 'just a yum thing'. There are lots and lots of users of yum out
there w/o any problem like this. I know, I've heard from them.

However, the problem of stalling on downloads is most often related to
transparent proxies.

-sv