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

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:53 +0200, Alan Robert Clark wrote:
> 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


and if you replace urlgrabber in the above command with 'wget'

what happens?

-sv