[Yum] IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:57 +0100, Jim Byrne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I seem to be unable to get yum to work. I tried 'yum update' to update
> all of my packages but got the error  'IOError: [Errno 104] Connection
> reset by peer'
> 
> Here is the full output from my command:
> 
> [root at localhost jimbo]# yum update
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/passivetex-0-1.21-2.noarch.hdr
> getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/vsftpd-0-1.1.3-8.ppc.hdr
> IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
> URL:
> http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/headers/vsftpd-0-1.1.3-8.ppc.hdr
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 

This is a problem accessing the mirror of ydl at ibiblio, iirc, Check
the mailing list archives but it's not related to yum it's a networking
problem.

-sv