<HTML><HEAD><META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv="Content-Type"><style type="text/css"></style></HEAD><BODY>Hello All Invariably and consistently there is an error message while l try to update the OS - RHEL AS 3 (Taroon Update3), as follows: <A HREF="https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC" TARGET="_blank">https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A> <A HREF="https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC" TARGET="_blank">https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A> <A HREF="https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC" TARGET="_blank">https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A> <A HREF="https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC" TARGET="_blank">https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A> <A HREF="https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC" TARGET="_blank">https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A> Error communicating with server. The message was: Connection timed out......... Could anybody figure out what could be the cause? I have been using both "up2date and yum" with various flags but it is futile.... Many more thanks in advance............. with more thanks michael albertina </BODY></HTML>