Stange things in Wget, yum

[Paul Howarth]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> 
> 
> 2006/2/21, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org <mailto:paul at city-fan.org>>:
> 
>     On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:31 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > 2006/2/21, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org
>     <mailto:paul at city-fan.org>>:
>      >         On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:42 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
>      >         > Please note the difference if I use flag --inet6 (that
>      >         doesn't work)
>      >         > or inet4 that works
>      >         >
>      >         > get -v --inet6-only
>      >         >
>      >        
>     http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>      >         > --13:38:06--
>      >         >
>      >        
>     http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
>      >         >            => `repomd.xml.6'
>      >         > Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com> in corso...
>      >         fallito: Name or
>      >         > service not known.
>      >         >
>      >         >  wget -v --inet4-only
>      >         >
>      >        
>     http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml>
>      >         > --13:40:30--
>      >         >
>      >        
>     http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml>
>      >         >            => `repomd.xml.6'
>      >         > Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com> in corso...
>      >         66.187.224.20 <http://66.187.224.20>,
>      >         > 209.132.176.20 <http://209.132.176.20>, 209.132.176.220
>     <http://209.132.176.220>, ...
>      >         > Connessione a
>     download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20:80.. .
>      >         connesso.
>      >         > HTTP richiesta inviata, aspetto la risposta... 200 OK
>      >         > Lunghezza: 1,140 ( 1.1K) [text/xml]
>      >         >
>      >         > 100%[====================================>] 1,140
>      >         --.--K/s
>      >         >
>      >         > 13:40:31 (673.08 KB/s) - "repomd.xml.6" salvato [1140/1140]
>      >         >
>      >         >
>      >         > This happens on my router
>      >         > therefore I can't also run yum update
>      >         > yum update
>      >         > Setting up Update Process
>      >         > Setting up repositories
>      >         > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>      >         > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo:
>      >         updates-released
>      >         >
>      >         > Please note that similar commands work on other computer
>      >         behind my
>      >         > router.
>      >         > What shall I investigate???
>      >
>      >         You might try running your own nameserver on the router and
>      >         see if that
>      >         helps. Or are you doing that already?
>      >
>      >         Paul.
>      >
>      >
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>      >
>      > Paul,
>      >
>      > your suggestion is not clear to me.
>      > What do you mean by running my own server?
>      > Now at the moment I am at home, no access to my office router, but I
>      > can check on this machine what I am doing..if there is any difference
>      > with the other router that went RH8/RH9/FC1/FC2/FC3/FC4 upgrades!!!!
>      >
>      > what I can't understand is why something went broken..
>      > Another guy on the yum list is reporting a similar problem.
>      > And, forgive my incompetence, is your sugegstion taking in account
>      > that other PC conencted to this router work fine??
> 
>     I'm fumbling around a bit for a solution to be honest. It does appear to
>     be a name resolution issue though, so running your own nameserver (DNS
>     server) would be a good start.
> 
>     You can do it this way:
>     # yum install caching-nameserver
>     # chkconfig named on
>     # service named start
> 
>     You should then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add the following line above
>     any other "nameserver" entries:
> 
>     nameserver 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
> 
>     See if that helps.
> 
>     Note: this may have issues if your office LAN uses its own local DNS
>     domain; you won't be able to resolve names in that domain from the
>     router. I'm also assuming that your router is statically configured,
>     i.e. does not use DHCP. If it did, the /etc/resolv.conf file could get
>     clobbered by the DHCP client.
> 
>     Paul.
> 
> 
> 
> This is my resolv.conf file on the working router and named (BIND) is 
> not started at boottime
> 
> nameserver 62.211.69.150 <http://62.211.69.150>
> nameserver 212.48.4.15 <http://212.48.4.15>
> 
> and they change at every connection as I get them from my ISP.
> 
> What is strange that I can surf the Net, get my e-mails and use synaptic 
> on the non-working router...it is a kind of magic!!!

OK, try what I suggested last time and if it works, put:

PEERDNS=no

in /etc/sysconfig/network to prevent /etc/resolv.conf getting 
overwritten on reboot.

Paul.