Network guru help sought please

[Rick Stevens]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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!

Thanks!  And to think most people just call me persnickety!
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