Network guru help sought please

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jul 6 18:45:16 UTC 2009


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2009 14:36, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm continuing to have problems with mirrorlist in yum.
>>>
>>> If I leave the 2 lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasev 
>>>
>>> er/Everything/$basearch/os/
>>> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever& 
>>>
>>> arch=$basearch
> 
> Try removing the 's' from "https://".  The mirror list isn't on a secure 
> server, just a regular old connection.  Your firewall may also be
> blocking port 443 (https).
> 
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch 
> 
Proofreading may have died at the newspapers, but not on this list. Good catch!

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