[Yum] Http errors connection to repository

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:09 -0600, Stephens, Bill {PBSG} wrote:
> I have a repository configured on a local server.  When I connect to the
> server using a baseurl of a local file (nfs mount), or by ip address,
> everything works fine.  If I try to connect to the same server by its
> cname or address name (a record), I get http 502 errors.  I can point my
> web browser to the server and it works fine, it seems to be whenever I
> try to connect to the url by hostname rather than ip address.  Any ideas
> what could be wrong?

on the machine you're trying to run yum on run this command:

wget $yourbaseurl_here

tell me what you get.

-sv