yum error in f11 alpha

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 08:13 -0800, David L wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Christopher Beland wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:58 -0800, David L wrote:
> >> It was a fresh install.  I would expect "yum install emacs" to just
> >> work in either case, shouldn't it?
> >
> > I certainly would.
> >
> > Someone else has reported this in Bugzilla:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484325
> That bug is closed as NOTABUG.
> 
> >
> > I hope it's not this common bug:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common#DNS_resolver_not_reliable
> 
> >
> > I assume your network is otherwise working?  It might be worthwhile to
> > see if /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo is sane and the URL listed
> > there for that repository is reachable.
> 
> I am able to ping mirrors.fedoraproject.org but yum doesn't work.
> Even if I changed mirrors.fedoraproject.org to the IP address that
> shows up when I ping mirrors, I get the same error with yum.  Any
> ideas how to work around this problem?

Is there a proxy involved here?

-sv