need help fixing yum (wget?) connection to net

[saibaggins]

Hi all,

Yum hasn't been working on my system for some time, and I really need to get it working. Please help.

I'm on FC4 x86_64


I keep getting something like:

[root@ORION etc]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

there is a long pause after the line

>core [1/3]

First I thought there must be a problem with my .repo files, but couldn't find anything. In the end I unistalled yum and installed yum-2.6.0-1.src.rpm

I've been using smfinley FC4 install guide for setting up my repos.

yum doesn't seem to be able to connect to anything, and I'm starting to think there maybe something at a lower level that is blocking yums connection to the net. Wget doesn't seem to be able to connect either, atleast when I do:

wget http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries....c4.rf.i386.rpm

i get:--22:25:48-- http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries....c4.rf.i386.rpm
=> `rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm'
Resolving ftp.belnet.be... 32.1.6.168
Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|32.1.6.168|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.


i can get this file with firefox without any problems.

so what is up?


It suggests there might be something up with my firewall/router but I can think of anything, it all looks normal.

I hope someone can help, as I've failed to find anything with google, and FC4 without yum is like ... well, not good...

[saibaggins]

thought I'd add a note here since I've fixed it.

It seems yum and wget were having problems getting dns loopups from my router (probably a router issue). Putting my ISPs dns into /etc/resolv.conf fixed this issue.


(note other people had the same problem but was due to having an out of date hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. see bugzilla, or just get a new .conf from the latest glibc)

--I might have checked this sooner, but I was sure Id already set that as I once had a problem were firefox couldnt get dns but other things could and that was the solution. it turned out that that problem was on my old i386 system. it seems firefox doesnt have this problem in 86_64.

[Hank Freid]

In my opinion, i think this problem in bious. So you can refresh you system.If the problem not solver then you reinstall your window. So it may be work well.

Regards:
Hank Freid