On Dec 4, 2011, at 6:01 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:07:56PM +1300, Tom Parker wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 07:59 +1100, James Cameron wrote: >>> Yes, yum is almost always broken, about 95% of attempts here. It is no >>> transient network issue for me. I've diagnosed this further and for me >>> the most likely cause is that my two ISPs have automatic unofficial >>> mirrors or caching proxies of Fedora and have a DNS that causes >>> connections from my hosts to go to their host instead of Fedora. DNS >>> queries sent elsewhere give different answers. >> >> So the first time I read this, I thought you were saying that your isp >> had a transparent proxy and was intercepting your requests. On second >> reading, I think you mean that yum is backed by a global list of mirrors >> and it chooses one that is closest to you and unfortunately that mirror >> is broken or incomplete for ARM. > > The ISP is intercepting DNS requests and returning an IP that is a proxy > of some sort, that responds as if it is legitimate. The same IP is not > returned with repeated queries from my connection to the other ISP, or > via SSH from a host in the USA. Whether it is a member of the global > mirror population ... I did not determine, because I don't have a way to > do that. But it is a possible explanation. In one case, the IP > translated to an akamai domain.
At least your ISP isn't nasty enough to hijack DNS requests to alternate servers, like the satellite ones. How about using the IP addresses of a real mirror in yum.repos.d instead of DNS names ? wad _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
