Problems with RHN Fedora Core 2

windtim@libero.i windtim at libero.it
Mon Nov 8 08:05:55 UTC 2004


Hi, i've followed your suggest but it doesn't work, it gives me "Temporary
failure in name resolution". I've seen file /etc/resolv.conf and my DNS server
are indicated and work well. What i've to do?


> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:25, Gerald Thompson wrote:
> > windtim at libero.i wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi, 
> > >     i've Fedora Core 2 and i'm trying to update my configuration with RHN.
I've
> > >registered nyself on the site, tryed to connect toRHN either trough up2date
from
> > >shell either trought the botton on GNOME desktop but in all cases it gives me
> > >the same errors "Temporary failure in name resolution". I'm behind a proxy and
> > >i've settted but connction to RHN fails yet. Can you help me? Thans a lot
in advance
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > I really strongly recommend you use yum
> > - find your nearest mirror
> > - http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> > 
> > - then update your /etc/yum.conf file with your mirror's base folder and 
> > updates folder for your version of fedora
> > - now you can just run yum check-update from command line
> > - yum update <leave blank for all updates, or type package name for 
> > specific update>
> > - yum install  <package name> for a package you haven't installed already
> > 
> > - I can't remember the command for removing a package but just go to man 
> > yum for that one
> > 
> > I highly recommend yum, ever since I first had to learn how to use it, I 
> > was totally surprised at how easy it is to learn compare to most package 
> > management tools.  Also updating the yum.conf with the mirrors is really 
> > easy.  ALWAYS USE A MIRROR or it will be slow and time out on you.  The 
> > default servers are too slow.
> > 
> > Gerald
> geraldt at telus.net
> 
> At: http://www.fedorafaq.org/
> They have a good yum.conf to download, it's worked well for me.
> 
> Tim...
> 
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