Installing rpm-build using yum

[Paul Howarth]

vasantha.pothabattula at wipro.com wrote:
> Hi,  
> Thank you Roger and Paul for your support . 
>  
> We have checked our naming service everything is fine .
> Now its giving a new error "Timed out"
>  
> # yum install rpm-build
> Repository core is listed more than once in the configuration
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> core
> [1/3]
> http://209.132.176.220/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.x
> ml
> <http://209.132.176.220/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.
> xml> : [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to
> try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
> 
>  
> We tried curl -v option also even it didnt open the url 
>  
> # curl -v
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repoda
> ta/repomd.xml
> <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repod
> ata/repomd.xml> 
> * getaddrinfo(3) failed for download.fedora.redhat.com:80
> * Couldn't resolve host 'download.fedora.redhat.com'
> * Closing connection #0
> curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'download.fedora.redhat.com'
> 
>  
> Can you suggest something like what should be done in this case .

You've still got name service issues. What's the output of:

$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf

Paul.