Network guru please help: baffled by missing file

[Timothy Murphy]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> I missed the original post.  Was this during the (extended) last weekend,
> when
> the updates mirror was down for several days?  I think it was Wednesday
> (15th)
> before I managed to get my updates.  Yum update is working normally again
> now.

Thanks for your response.

No, I've had this problem for several months.
I've a feeling it may date from the time
when I started using my Dell PowerEdge T105 as a server,
in place of an HP server which now lives in Italy.

I guess if I don't find out what is wrong in a couple of days
I'll try installing Fedora-11 on this machine on a separate partition.

The problem is more an intellectual one than a practical one,
as I have no problem when I use my local repository as yum baseurl .

My server has internal IP address 192.168.1.2 ,
but external address 86.43.71.228 .
But most people must have 2 addresses like this?

It really seems as though fedoraproject tests my system in some way,
and the system fails the test.
Maybe it sees that Windows partition ...

I see that I have no problem with the other CentOS repositories, eg
-----------------------------------------
[tim at helen tmp]$ wget http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl
--16:40:49--  http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl
Resolving linux.dell.com... 143.166.224.62
Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.224.62|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: `mirrors.pl'
...
16:40:50 (3.96 MB/s) - `mirrors.pl' saved [54]
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