[Yum] yum update CentOS 3.8

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 21:28 -0800, Steve Schilt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed CentOS 3.8 this week and would like to run a 'yum update' 
> but always get an error that looks like this:
> 
> OTHELLO_root /root# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
> retrygrab() failed for:
>    http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info
>    Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >
> 
> The yum.conf I am using is the default that is shipped with the 
> distro. I have formerly run CentOS 4.4 and  Fedora 4 but did not 
> encounter this problem. Any suggestions?
> 

First thing you might want to do is ask on the centos users' mailing
list.
next thing is take the url up there:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info

and paste it into a web browser on the same machine. If you can't get to
the url from your webbrowser  then that's what is wrong.

-sv