Resolving problems with wget and yum

[Chris Hills]

Hi

This behaviour is very strange, I wonder if anyone has a clue as to what 
is going on. System is FC4 running 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4. HEAD and GET from 
perl-LWP work as expected, but wget and yum do not.

$ wget -4 http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk
--08:55:35--  http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/
            => `index.html'
Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... 212.219.188.72
Connecting to mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk|212.219.188.72|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 586 [text/html]

100%[==================================================================================================================>] 
586           --.--K/s

08:55:35 (17.46 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [586/586]

[chaz at cacti ~]$ rm index.html
[chaz at cacti ~]$ wget -6 http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk
--08:55:45--  http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/
            => `index.html'
Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... 2001:630:1c0:2001:172:18:254:2
Connecting to 
mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk|2001:630:1c0:2001:172:18:254:2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 586 [text/html]

100%[==================================================================================================================>] 
586           --.--K/s

08:55:45 (17.46 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [586/586]

[chaz at cacti ~]$ wget http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk
--08:55:53--  http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/
            => `index.html.1'
Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... failed: No such file or directory.

$ sudo yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or directory')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more 
mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] 
No more mirrors to try.

Regards

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Chris Hills