Re: Network guru please help: baffled by missing file

On Friday 17 Jul 2009 15:02:30 Didar Hossain wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Timothy Murphy<gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.repo
reads:
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-releas
ed- f$releasever&arch=$basearch

As far as I can see, this means that yum is looking for
the file metalink at mirrors.fedoraproject.org ?

If I try "sudo yum update" I get:
-----------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, auto-update-debuginfo,
basearchonly, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter-
: data, keys, list-data, merge-conf,
post-transaction-actions, presto, priorities, protect-packages,
: protectbase, refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, remove-
with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves,
: tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify
its path and try again
-----------------------------------
Adding --noplugins does not help:
-----------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum --noplugins update
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
updates. Please verify its path and try again
-----------------------------------

Trying to get the file with wget:
-----------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ wget https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink
--2009-07-17 13:04:41-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink
Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122
Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443...
connected. ERROR: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't
match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'.
To connect to mirrors.fedoraproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check-
certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.
-----------------------------------
Adding --no-check-certificate does not seem to help:
-----------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ wget --no-check-certificate
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink
--2009-07-17 13:06:22-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink
Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122
Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443...
connected. WARNING: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't
match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2009-07-17 13:06:23 ERROR 404: Not Found.
-----------------------------------

When I look at the http traffic on my server with wireshark
the file-request seems to be properly sent,
but the file is not found.

The symptoms seem to me (no http expert) to suggest
that there is some condition for seeing this file
that my system is not fulfilling.

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

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.

Anne
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