Network guru help sought please

[Rick Stevens]

Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/07/2009 14:36, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm continuing to have problems with mirrorlist in yum.
>>
>> If I leave the 2 lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
>> ----------------------------------------
>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasev
>> er/Everything/$basearch/os/
>> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&
>> arch=$basearch

Try removing the 's' from "https://".  The mirror list isn't on a secure 
server, just a regular old connection.  Your firewall may also be
blocking port 443 (https).

mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
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