Re: Yum repo for Oracle 7 is down?

From: Phil Jones <phil_at_phillip.im>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:09:36 +0100
Message-Id: <D7145E74-D8DC-463F-89BF-79E3EF322561_at_phillip.im>



Pretty crap message for yum to return if the firewall is returning a relevant bad http status. I’ll check in the morning & report it as a bug if so.

Ta,

Phil

> On 12 Jul 2017, at 20:38, Rich J <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017/07/12 11:28, Tim Hall wrote:
>> 
>> I've been using all afternoon doing Docker builds. I've not seen it down once...
>> 

>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I tried running "yum makecache fast" and it times out. All is well for OL6, only OL7 is affected:
>>>
>>>
>>> [root_at_ora122 oracle]# yum makecache fast
>>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
>>> http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR4/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR4/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'Connection timed out after 30001 milliseconds')
>>> Trying other mirror.
>  
> I've been using it the OL7 repo the past three days without a hiccup.  Perhaps bypass yum and verify with wget on that and other boxes.
>  
> When our firewall was blocking yum (Checkpoint does by default, because server installs and updates are bad apparently), I got an "XML corrupt" error due to the message that Checkpoint sent back instead of the expected XML.
>  
> Rich

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