CentOS - Aug 2013 - Mirror failure

Hi, all.

I was getting:

`http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'mirror01.th.ifl.net'"
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'ftp.mirrorservice.org'"
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.fedora.is/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'ftp.fedora.is'"
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'ftp.funet.fi'"
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 
'mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk'"
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: 
repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2
from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem`

every time I ran `sudo yum update'. This happened on Fedora 17 also. 
I've had to switch both machines to Ubuntu because I need working machines.

I've Googled this extensively & changed my nameservers, commented out 
relevant lines in the configs, etc, etc but no luck so far. Ubuntu works 
fine & I have no network problems (two HP ProCurves 2124s working 
normally over the rest of the network: 17 machines).

Is there a workaround for this as I need a working CentOS box.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

     Phil...

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Phil Dobbin wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I was getting:
>
>
`http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'mirror01.th.ifl.net'"
> Trying other mirror.
>
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
> 'ftp.mirrorservice.org'"
> Trying other mirror.
>
ftp://ftp.fedora.is/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'ftp.fedora.is'"
> Trying other mirror.
>
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'ftp.funet.fi'"
> Trying other mirror.
>
ftp://mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
> 'mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk'"
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure:
>
repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2
> from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem`
>
> every time I ran `sudo yum update'. This happened on Fedora 17 also.
> I've had to switch both machines to Ubuntu because I need working
> machines.
>
> I've Googled this extensively & changed my nameservers, commented
out
> relevant lines in the configs, etc, etc but no luck so far. Ubuntu works
> fine & I have no network problems (two HP ProCurves 2124s working
> normally over the rest of the network: 17 machines).
>
> Is there a workaround for this as I need a working CentOS box.
You *did* do yum clean all, correct?

       mark