Could not connect to gmail in fedora 6? and Could not run YUM

Raghavendra Moktali rmoktali at vsnl.net
Tue Apr 3 19:59:20 UTC 2007


frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running fedora 5 and fedora 6 on vmware at the same host machine.
> I could get on the internet from fedora 6. However, if I tried to get
> to www.gmail.com, firefox just timed out. I do not have any problem on
> fedora 5.
> 
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
> 
> At the same time, I still could not use yum to update the fedora 6.
> The error message is:
> 
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrolist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error
> was
> [Error 4] IOError: <ulropen error (110, .....)>
> Error: cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> 
> Could any help to fix this also? I really need to get the kernel-devel
> package to compile the vmtoolbox.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Frank
> 
I also struggled thtough this. thought the system was obtaining the ip
by dhcp, the dns was wrong.
verify /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to the correct dns servers.
you could point it to OpenDNS.
hth
rm




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