> The error output states, more or less, that "http://redhat.secsup.org/ > ..." could not be resolved. Perhaps the server was down or your DNS > server was screwed up. In any case I was able to display the file when > I double-clicked the link. Why not try yum again? Thanks for the clue. Following it, I found the problem in the nic config: default gateway address was wrong. Odd that I could talk inside my Linksys firewall, but not outside. I would have expected both fail with this error. Yum is fine now. Mike -- Michael D. Berger m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx