F17 - yum does not update!

[Cristian Sava]

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:25 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 28.11.2012 12:17, schrieb Cristian Sava:
> > But when trying to install any new package ...
> >> yum install iptraf
> > ....
> > iptraf-ng-1.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64. FAILED curl#7 - "Couldn't connect"
> > ....
> > Trying other mirror.
> > and so on!
> > 
> > Modifying in yum.repos.d does not help.
> > Same install with Centos 6.3 x64 with same result!
> > 
> > Why this, what's wrong now? Any sugestion?
> 
> if you have the same on F17 as on CentOS it is pretty clear
> that it is no software-problem, so i would say you are
> behind some proxy
> 
And another detail: I did both installs (first C6 and after the problem
tried F17) today, few hours ago. Both installed all the updates at
install time but later failed to install packages using yum.
Not using graphical environment, no Gnome/KDE/XFCE, only mysql and httpd
(stopped)
 
C. Sava