Using yum with mirrors.fedoraproject.org unavailable?

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Wed Jun 11 21:36:30 UTC 2008


Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>      Dear friends,
>
>   Is there a way to install software normally available from the
> fedora repositories using yum if mirrors.fedoraproject.org is
> unavailable (as it is right now)? Thanks!
>
>      Take care
>      Oliver
>
>   

fedoraproject.org is not resolving from many sites right now.

The best solution is to make an entry in /etc/hosts to bypass DNS which 
is broken for many at the moment.

Add this line to: /etc/hosts

209.132.176.122    fedoraproject.org mirrors.fedoraproject.org


Good Luck!




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