TrevorH - you are awesome !
I have some issues again -
yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5 ... epo=addons error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons
[root@@@@@ etc]# curl "
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6 ... 64&repo=os"
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'
[root@@@@@@ etc]#
[root@@@@@@ etc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
[root@@@@@@ etc]#
[root@@@@@@etc]# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7000ms
[root@@@@@@ etc]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo | head
[root@vlvichortest1 etc]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6 ... 64&repo=os
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... po=updates
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... epo=addons
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... epo=extras
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... centosplus
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... po=contrib
#baseurl=
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
[root@@@@@@ etc]# vi /etc/resolv.conf --> Added the DNS server IP( DNS server is a windows BOX)
[root@@@@@@ etc]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5 ... epo=addons error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons
[root@@@@@@ etc]#
Some issue with DNS I am not able to fix it. Could you help me with it ?