Re: [rhn-users] up2date error unknown host. (Name or service notknown)

[Mihai Ibanescu <misa redhat com>]

On 10 Mar 2003, Mike Chambers wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:22, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
> > [root bart root]# grep -i serverURL /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> > serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
> > serverURL=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
> > useNoSSLForPackages[comment]=Use the noSSLServerURL for package, package
> > list, and header fetching
> > noSSLServerURL[comment]=Remote server URL without SSL
> > noSSLServerURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
> 
> [reddawg bart reddawg]$ ping xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com
> PING xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com (66.187.232.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 
> --- xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com ping statistics ---
> 375 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 374047ms
> 
> pinging rhn.redhat.com doesn't work either.

Well, pinging is not supposed to work. Most of the corporate firewalls are 
filtering ICMP echo requests. Gone is the day when ping was useful on the 
Internet; it's the worm and DOS attacks days now. :-)

If in doubt about the network status, telnet xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com 80 
should tell you exactly what's going on.

Misa