Mirrorlist problems?

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 21:10 -0600 schrieb Mike McGrath:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> 
> >
> > ----- "Andrew McNabb" <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I just installed a new machine with Fedora 12 this evening, and
> > > Anaconda
> > > gave an error about not being able to get the repository metadata.
> I
> > > ended up switching the URL from the default mirrorlist to a
> specific
> > > mirror, and the installation worked.  Now that the system is
> > > installed,
> > > I tried to use yum and got the error: "Error: Cannot retrieve
> > > repository
> > > metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its
> path
> > > and
> > > try again".  Are there any known infrastructure problems right
> now?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > A user in #fedora reported an issue like this with the RPM Fusion
> repo however his was a 503 error.
> >
> 
> I couldn't recreate, can anyone else?

I've got the same problem.
I used the hosts entries in [1] to fix this.
So maybe an DNS problem?

- fabian

[1]
http://digitizor.com/2009/06/17/how-to-fix-the-cannot-retrieve-repository-metadata-repomd-xml-error-in-fedora-11/
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