[Yum] yum ftp possibly-nat-related weirdness
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 16 15:56:16 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:54 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'm getting reports like "yum doesn't work from my home system", with errors
> like:
>
> $ yum upgrade
> Setting up Upgrade Process
> Setting up repositories
> bulinux-devel 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> ftp://linst.bu.edu/yum/4.5/base/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError:
> [Errno ftp error] timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: bulinux-base
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from bulinux-base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
> to try.
>
> I had the user try "urlgrabber
> ftp://linst.bu.edu/yum/4.5/base/i386/repodata/repomd.xml" and that works
> fine. Any guess what's going on here?
there shouldn't be any difference in those two commands at all.
Can you replicate this and tcpdump it?
-sv
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