Wget, Yum and network investigation

Thu Feb 23 10:27:00 UTC 2006

2006/2/23, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
>
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:48 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > I can't solve this problem...
> >
> > Scenary
> >
> > 1 Pc acting as router with Fedora 4, iptables, squid, transparent
> > proxy
> > other PC's working with Fedora
> >
> > I have two twin networks (at home and at office) and they are very
> > similar, i.e. in most cases configuration files are the same,
> > sometimes transferred from one system forth and backwards. One router
> > has been updated from RH8 to RH9/FC1/FC2/FC3/FC4, the other router was
> > a fresh FC4 install.
> >
> > I updated all systems (router and other computers) by yum update or
> > graphically by Yumex for a long time.
> > Suddenly yum (and Yumex) on one router didn't work any more, while
> > synaptic works fine
> >
> > Suddenly the router could not be updated by yum:
> >
> > yum update
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
> > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
> >
> > The other PC on same network could be updated by yum
> >
> > On  Paul's advice i issued the wget command on the router
> > Please note the difference if I use flag --inet6 (that doesn't work)
> > or inet4 that works. Wget without any flag works flawlessly.
> >
> > get -v --inet6-only
> >
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> > --13:38:06--
> >
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> >            => `repomd.xml.6'
> > Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com in corso... fallito: Name or
> > service not known.
> >
> >  wget -v --inet4-only
> >
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> > --13:40:30--
> >
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> >            => `repomd.xml.6'
> > Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com in corso... 66.187.224.20,
> > 209.132.176.20, 209.132.176.220, ...
> > Connessione a download.fedora.redhat.com|66
> > .187.224.20:80... connesso.
> > HTTP richiesta inviata, aspetto la risposta... 200 OK
> > Lunghezza: 1,140 ( 1.1K) [text/xml]
> >
> > 100%[====================================>] 1,140         --.--K/s
> >
> > 13:40:31 (673.08 KB/s) - "repomd.xml.6" salvato [1140/1140]
> >
> > Same commands on other PC works fine.
> >
> > Please note that apart from this problem, I can surf the net and get
> > e-mails also on router, and all networks runs fine on the Internet.
> >
> > Any idea, any point to start where to investigate???
>
> Have you tried running your own nameserver on the router yet?
>
> Paul.
>
>
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Yes...
It doesn't make any difference at all, as I expected, because other services
through network are O.k.
I am lost at a dead point....

Tnx

--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
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