[Yum] Using Yum with Mandrake 9.2

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:43, Kathy Wills wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that the suggestion to get the latest 
> version of Yum worked. The only problem I'm having now is that when I do 
> "yum list installed" it downloads some of the headers and then says 
> "failover: out of servers to try. Error getting (here it gives the 
> header it would try to get next) [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> 
> I'm assuming this just means the server is busy because if I wait just a 
> few minutes it will get some more of the headers.

under [main]

add

retries=10

that will increase the number of retries yum makes to contact the
server.

also - you aren't by chance using a transparent proxy?

-sv