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Re: [LUG] yum curl error [14]

 

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 21:55 +0000, Tom wrote:
> On 06/11/13 20:54, Kevin Lucas wrote:
> > HI all
> > Does anyone use Yum?
> >
> > I have in on a new x86_64 mobo with Fedora 18 and get constantly
> > http://mirror.arlug.ro/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
> >  [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: mirror.arlug.ro; Name or service 
> > not known"
> > this is repeated for all the mirrors ad inf...
> >
> > Dns is OK and I can ping all of them.
> > I have yum cleaned all  /updated etc but to no avail.
> >
> > Tinkering as you do I tried the plugins Enable / disable to no avail but
> > when I changed exectarch from 1 to 0 in yum.conf all is working ok
> >
> > is this risky?
> >
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
> > keepcache=0
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > exactarch=0
> > obsoletes=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > plugins=1
> > installonly_limit=3
> >
> >
> exactarch=1 means that you want the exact architecture of your currently 
> installed packages. So have you installed a strange version? The above 
> link in the curl error works for me so does it for you? Is there a proxy 
> getting in the way?
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
the curl link works fine, no proxy 
uname -r 
3.11.4-101.fc18.x86_64
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