Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
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From: Hugh Janus on 8 Nov 2006 14:12 Hi all, I have installed Fedora Core 6 and love it! However, I have 1 problem with is a pretty big one for me. I can use the internet fine with Konqueror, but with Firefox I get a timeout error. Also, when I run Add/Remove Programs, I get the error message "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates". It seems as if I have DNS problems, although konqueror lets me use the web fine. I have an ADSL connection with NAT running. My Windows XP machine works OK so I know it is not the router nor NAT. Also, the fact that Konqueror works with the internet suggests to me that this is a config problem. Any ideas? I have searched these groups but as of yet, I have not found a solution. TIA, Hugh
From: Hugh Janus on 8 Nov 2006 14:14 p.s. Firefox lets me open webpages if I use the IP. So this has to be a config problem. Any ideas anyone? Hugh
From: Hugh Janus on 9 Nov 2006 15:14 Hugh Janus ha escrito: > p.s. Firefox lets me open webpages if I use the IP. So this has to be > a config problem. Any ideas anyone? > > Hugh OK, I manually configured the IPs of my ISP's DNS servers instead of using my router to provide DNS and now Firefox works. But still no luck with yum, just gives the same error. Any ideas anyone????? Hugh
From: Mark on 10 Nov 2006 00:00 Hugh Janus wrote: > > Hugh Janus ha escrito: > >> p.s. Firefox lets me open webpages if I use the IP. So this has to be >> a config problem. Any ideas anyone? >> >> Hugh > > OK, I manually configured the IPs of my ISP's DNS servers instead of > using my router to provide DNS and now Firefox works. But still no > luck with yum, just gives the same error. Any ideas anyone????? > > Hugh First, test your DNS is working with the hostname for the fedora-updates host in particular: host download.fedora.redhat.com You should see: download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.20 download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.220 download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.221 download.fedora.redhat.com has address 66.187.224.20 Check your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo to verify that the "baseurl" entry is ok (not commented out with a "#", the URL is valid --> test by pasting the baseurl into firefox and visiting it, you should see a page listing a bunch of rpm files). the baseurl in my fedora-updates.repo file is: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ Mark
From: Hugh Janus on 14 Nov 2006 03:10 Mark wrote: > > Hugh > > First, test your DNS is working with the hostname for the fedora-updates > host in particular: > > host download.fedora.redhat.com > > You should see: > > download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.20 > download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.220 > download.fedora.redhat.com has address 209.132.176.221 > download.fedora.redhat.com has address 66.187.224.20 > > Check your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo to verify that > the "baseurl" entry is ok (not commented out with a "#", the > URL is valid --> test by pasting the baseurl into firefox and > visiting it, you should see a page listing a bunch of rpm files). > > the baseurl in my fedora-updates.repo file is: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ > > Mark All the above works OK. As I said, Firefox works sometimes but other times not. I even added all the mirrors to the local hosts file but this still did not make YUM work. I found a thread on google mentioning that it might be a problem with how Python resolves DNS names, however I don't see how this would affect Firefox (unless it is written in Python). When I had FC1 on the laptop I had no problems, but FC6 refuses to go. This is driving me nuts as it is the only thing not working! I am tempted to reinstall FC6 in case something got messed up during install but i'd prefer to fix it rather than just wipe and hope it solves itself. Any ideas?
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