[Yum] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"

Zdenek Pavlas zpavlas at redhat.com
Wed Oct 23 13:19:48 UTC 2013


> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os error was
> 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"

My wild bet is IPv6 breakage.. Does the following work?

$ curl 'http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os'
$ curl -4 'http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os'



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