Just went to update a couple systems this morning, and first one machine
took nearly 15 min to find the mirrors (and it should be getting it all
from our own repo, actually), and then the next one showed about 8-10
mirrors down, including Harvard and VCU. Anyone know what's going on?
mark
On 08/05/2010 02:44 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Just went to update a couple systems this morning, and first one machine > took nearly 15 min to find the mirrors (and it should be getting it all > from our own repo, actually), and then the next one showed about 8-10 > mirrors down, including Harvard and VCU. Anyone know what's going on?debugging yum issues is almost always best done from your local client instance. Running yum with -d9 would be a good place to start from. - KB
m.roth at 5-cent.us a ?crit :> Just went to update a couple systems this morning, and first one machine > took nearly 15 min to find the mirrors (and it should be getting it all > from our own repo, actually), and then the next one showed about 8-10 > mirrors down, including Harvard and VCU. Anyone know what's going on? >Same here. Running 'yum check-update' on my normally superfast dedicated server (in a datacenter in France) takes ages. Niki
Steve Huff wrote:> > On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> I do not believe it's a local yum issue. I tried to point firefox to >> http://mirror.harvard.edu, not exactly an obscure mirror, and it times >> out. As I work for an agency of the US gov't, and we have *fat* pipes, >> it's not likely to be on our end. > > Mark, > > 1) are you looking for CentOS mirrors or for RPMforge/Fedora/EPEL mirrors? > > 2) do you, perhaps, mean to point to http://mirror.hmdc.harvard.edu/ > rather than http://mirror.harvard.edu/? > > -steve > (AKA shuff at hmdc.harvard.edu)I see the email....<g> I just called our network support, and when I asked if there'd been a firewall change in the last 12 hours, was told "there's a routing issue", with no ETR. *sigh* Thanks, folks. mark "rollback the change, um, what's that mean?"