[WBEL-users] Up2date trouble
Jeff Macdonald
macfisherman@gmail.com
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:44:34 -0400
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:27:32 -0400, Kevin Hanser <kevin@mica.net> wrote:
<snip>
> 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