Hi
This behaviour is very strange, I wonder if anyone has a clue as to what is going on. System is FC4 running 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4. HEAD and GET from perl-LWP work as expected, but wget and yum do not.
$ wget -4 http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk --08:55:35-- http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/ => `index.html' Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... 212.219.188.72 Connecting to mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk|212.219.188.72|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 586 [text/html]
100%[==================================================================================================================>] 586 --.--K/s
08:55:35 (17.46 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [586/586]
[chaz@cacti ~]$ rm index.html [chaz@cacti ~]$ wget -6 http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk --08:55:45-- http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/ => `index.html' Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... 2001:630:1c0:2001:172:18:254:2 Connecting to mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk|2001:630:1c0:2001:172:18:254:2|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 586 [text/html]
100%[==================================================================================================================>] 586 --.--K/s
08:55:45 (17.46 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [586/586]
[chaz@cacti ~]$ wget http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk --08:55:53-- http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/ => `index.html.1' Resolving mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk... failed: No such file or directory.
$ sudo yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://mirror.ne-worcs.ac.uk/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or directory')> Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Regards
-- Chris Hills