[Yum] dag repo problems

[Jim Perrin]

> Tried that several times, but the answer is always "it must be your DNS".

That usually is the problem for what you're describing.

> > Note that dag also has several mirrors that you
> > can use.
>
> They're in the dag.repo file already.
>
> The oddity is that the hostnames all resolve perfectly happily if I
> look them up manually with nslookup. It is really was a DNS problem
> I would expect them to be returning null. Unless it's something like
> an overenthusiatic timeout in the yum code or something?

It defaults to 30 seconds I believe, which I wouldn't call
over-enthusiastic. man yum.conf will  show you the option.


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