[Yum] dag repo problems

[Michael Stenner]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:50:00AM -0400, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> >>Tried that several times, but the answer is always "it must be your DNS".
> >
> >That usually is the problem for what you're describing.
> 
> But the odd thing is that no matter where in the world I connect
> (and therefore using the DNS of whoever I'm connected through) I
> still get the same error. If it was only on (for example) my home
> network using my own ISP's DNS, I'd agree the DNS would be the
> problem, but it's everywhere (and no, I'm not running a DNS on my
> laptop, and yes, my connections do all use the DHCP-provided DNS
> addresses :-)

try gethostip rather than nslookup.  I've seen issues with
/etc/nsswitch.conf and (for example) nis cause calls to
gethostbyname(3) to fail.

					-Michael
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