On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jamie McKnight wrote:
>
> It would appear the one I have trouble talking to is
> 69.67.240.122.
>
> Seems I can get to all the other ip's that make up
> mirror.centos.org.
Thanks - that fixes it - should be 69.56.240.122
:(
Regards
Lance
>
> Jamie
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Lance Davis wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jamie McKnight wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I did an install of CentOS 2.1 this past weekend and ran into the
> > > same thing. While strace'ing the yum process I noticed it was hanging
> > > trying to talk to the same ip address each time. After it would timeout
> > > it would download a few more until it hit trying to talk to that same ip
> > > address again.
> > >
> > > nslookup of server configured in yum.conf returned several ip's,
> > > one of which was not responding. My fix was to set it specifically to one
> > > of the ip addresses. Sorry I don't have the specifics of which server it
> > > was that wasn't responding, but I don't have access to that box at the
> > > moment.
> >
> > sounds like one of the mirror servers may be having problems.
> >
> > I also saw the issue last night updating a server and put it down to
> > excess traffic caused by C4 syncing.
> >
> > If you can let us know which ip then I can investigate - otherwise will
> > try to deduce later.
> >
> > Lance
> >
> > >
> > > Jamie
> > >
> > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Kercher wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ken Godee wrote:
> > > > >> I have a similar problem. yum is almost always stalling whether it's
> > > > >> a clean install (just did two clean installs of 3.4 on Friday) or an
> > > > >> existing box (have eight 3.3 boxes that have been running for about
> > > > >> 2 months now).
> > > > >>
> > > > >> However, if I hit ctrl-c, it just kills the process, it doesn't
> > > > >> continue it, so I was surprised to read your comments above.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I end up always doing one of two things (or a combination of them):
> > > > >>
> > > > >> a) since I figured it was related to which mirror it might be hitting
> > > > >> (never investigated, just assumed), I always just ctrl-c to end the
> > > > >> process and then run yum again, thinking I might get a faster/closer
> > > > >> mirror -- repeat this until it seems to be going at a decent pace
> > > > >>
> > > > >> b) alternatively, or after doing (a) a few times, I just walk away
> > > > >> from it, and eventually (sometimes half an hour or more), it *will*
> > > > >> complete, stalling all along the way at various points
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank god...I'm not crazy!!! :)
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
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