Been seeing odd behavior with yum/RHN in my firewall since my 5.4 upgrade was done, and wonder if something that would change iptables' behavior has happened. See below. [root@www ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: rhnplugin Cleaning up Everything [root@www ~]# yum list updates Loaded plugins: rhnplugin rhel-i386-server-5 | 1.3 kB 00:00 rhel-i386-server-5/primary | 2.3 MB 00:11 rhel-i386-server-5 6106/6106 Updated Packages net-snmp-libs.i386 1:5.3.2.2-7.el5_4.2 rhel-i386-server-5 nspr.i386 4.7.5-1.el5_4 rhel-i386-server-5 OK, so far, but now... [root@www ~]# yum -y update Loaded plugins: rhnplugin Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package net-snmp-libs.i386 1:5.3.2.2-7.el5_4.2 set to be updated ---> Package nspr.i386 0:4.7.5-1.el5_4 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Updating: net-snmp-libs i386 1:5.3.2.2-7.el5_4.2 rhel-i386-server-5 1.3 M nspr i386 4.7.5-1.el5_4 rhel-i386-server-5 119 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 0 Package(s) Update 2 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 1.4 M Downloading Packages: Error Downloading Packages: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-7.el5_4.2.i386: failed to retrieve getPackage/net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-7.el5_4.2.i386.rpm from rhel-i386-server-5 error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> nspr-4.7.5-1.el5_4.i386: failed to retrieve getPackage/nspr-4.7.5-1.el5_4.i386.rpm from rhel-i386-server-5 error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Even so, /var/log/up2date confirms yum's communicating with RHN (and that my entitlement's valid): [Wed Sep 16 10:52:46 2009] up2date updateLoginInfo() login info [Wed Sep 16 10:52:46 2009] up2date logging into up2date server [Wed Sep 16 10:52:47 2009] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server Ideas? Thanks. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ | tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html