yum repositories question

[Ed Greshko]

bob smith wrote:
> trying to update F9, on a 386/686 box. Failing. Thanks in advance for
> any help
>
> quick description - can't run yum. Think I have the repositories files
> from (addresses don't resolve)
> yes, I probably hosed them up trying to fix them. Got not response to
> yum update. time out error or address did not resolve
>
> removed files from yum.repos.d
> put a set of repos in yum.conf  = seem to be wrong.
> this is what I get
>
> yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386
> error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
> resolution')>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
> resolution')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: fedora9-source. Please verify its path and try again
>
Seems like your system can't resolve the host names into an IP address. 
Network/DNS problems....

What does

host mirrors.fedoraproject.org 

return?


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