Anne Wilson wrote: > I missed the original post. Was this during the (extended) last weekend, > when > the updates mirror was down for several days? I think it was Wednesday > (15th) > before I managed to get my updates. Yum update is working normally again > now. Thanks for your response. No, I've had this problem for several months. I've a feeling it may date from the time when I started using my Dell PowerEdge T105 as a server, in place of an HP server which now lives in Italy. I guess if I don't find out what is wrong in a couple of days I'll try installing Fedora-11 on this machine on a separate partition. The problem is more an intellectual one than a practical one, as I have no problem when I use my local repository as yum baseurl . My server has internal IP address 192.168.1.2 , but external address 86.43.71.228 . But most people must have 2 addresses like this? It really seems as though fedoraproject tests my system in some way, and the system fails the test. Maybe it sees that Windows partition ... I see that I have no problem with the other CentOS repositories, eg ----------------------------------------- [tim@helen tmp]$ wget http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl --16:40:49-- http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl Resolving linux.dell.com... 143.166.224.62 Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.224.62|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] Saving to: `mirrors.pl' ... 16:40:50 (3.96 MB/s) - `mirrors.pl' saved [54] ----------------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
