[WBEL-users] Up2date trouble

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:27:32 -0400, Kevin Hanser <kevin@mica.net> wrote:

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> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
> resolution')>
> ----END OUTPUT----
> 
> I see that the last line is an error that says there is a "Temporary
> failure in name resolution".  However, I'm not sure what it was trying
> to resolve when this happened!  I thought maybe it was the last mirror
> listed (gd.tuwien.ac.at), but when I do a dig it resolves fine:
> 
> ----DIG----
> [kmh@uranus rhn]$ dig gd.tuwien.ac.at
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> gd.tuwien.ac.at
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32359
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;gd.tuwien.ac.at.               IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> gd.tuwien.ac.at.        86400   IN      A       192.35.244.50
> ----END DIG----
> 
> Anyone know what's going on here?  Did I forget something?
> 
> Thanx!
> 

I have to say up2date error handling sucks. Re-running the command
several times until it completes is what I've done in all instances of
up2date failing.

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA