[Yum] Weird: IOError: <urlopen error (-2 Name.. but yumex works!!!

[Alan Robert Clark]

seth vidal wrote:
>> New Year's greetings from Sunny South Africa.
> 
> 
> 1. is there a proxy involved in this setup?
None.
> 2. if you're sitting at a prompt can you run:
>     /usr/bin/urlgrabber \ 
> 
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386
> 

Same error :-(
Thanks for the reply!
Alan

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