Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?
William Perkins
wperkins at patriot.net
Fri Oct 8 16:23:48 UTC 2010
Hi JB,
> William Perkins <wperkins <at> patriot.net> writes:
>>
>> Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is
>> it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora
>> updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it
>> stopped accepting connections from the system that handles package
>> updates for all of my servers and clients. No errors are returned,
>> there is just no response.
>
>Hi,
>could you please be more specific ? It matters :-)
>
> I assume your internal update server is F13.
No, it is currently Fedora 12. All of my systems will be updated to
Fedora 14 when it is released, and this problem I am having is resolved.
> Where is it specified that you use that download.fedora.redhat.com
> IP/address as a repo server for updates ? Give us an output of that
> file. Is that an official Fedora mirror site ?
I do not use yum directly to download the updated RPM files, I use LFTP
in a script to find and download all of the new SRPMS and RPM filess in
the RedHat repository, put them in my local package repository, update
one system manually to make sure the updates will work, and if that works
okay, auto update with Yum the rest of the systems using the local
repository. This save download time and I get the SRPMS files along with
i386 and X86_64 RPM files, and all files that are downloaded get archived
for recovery purposes, I have been using this process in its various
forms at least since Fedora 5 was released. Yes, even before Yum was
released. This process has worked until this connection problem started
occuring.
>> It does resolve correctly in the DNS:
>> 209.132.183.67.
>
> How did you verify that (dig, nslookup, host) ?
> From where did you verify it (your internal update server or client; or
> perhaps outside-of-your-domain machine) ?
>
I verified the 209.132.183.67 IP address both foward and reverse on my
local systems and on some remote systems to which I have shell access.
The DNS lookup information was the same in each case.
>> I can connect to this server from other systems
>> outside of my domain, but none of my own clients or servers can get a
>> connection to open on the download.fedora.redhat.com server.
>
> On your domain:
> - do you use a local dns caching server (nscd, dnsmasq, bind) ? Where ?
> - on your internal update server, give us an output of:
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search grnwood.net
nameserver 173.162.21.73
nameserver 173.162.21.74
> $ cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
> - have you looked at your firewall rules (thru GUI and actual content in
> iptables files: less /etc/sysconfig/ip*tables ) ?
>
I run Bind on two servers in a rather usual configuration. DNS resolution
is not the problem here, the correct information is being returned
regardless of which system, local or remote, is doing the query.
The firewall is handled in a seperate configuration. None of its rules
have been changed in quite some time.
>> I can connect to other FTP and web sites without any problems. A
>> traceroute gets as far as redhat-2.border1.phx004.pnap.net
>> (69.25.121.26) and stops there after fourteen hops.
>>
>> I would appreciate some help or suggestions in resolving this problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>
I did use the traceroute, as another user suggested, using the "-T"
option and TCP SYNs, and received 30 empty hops.
> JB
Thank you JB for your reply.
Bill
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William M. Perkins, KJ4ASH UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
The Greenwood ARES / Skywarn / ARCA
Galax, Virginia E-mail - wmp at grnwood.net
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