[users] problem with downloading headers with yum

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Maarten,

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a weird problem with yum. If I run yum update, I get 
> output like this:
> ---> Package mysql.i386 0:5.0.22-2.1.0.1 set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for lftp to pack into transaction set.
> lftp-3.5.14-1.el5.rf.i386 100% |=========================|  12 kB    
> 00:00 
>
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/lftp-3.5.14-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete. Trying other mirror.

All this error is telling me is that the mirror you're downloading the header
from doesn't have the correct header.

Just do a "yum clean all" and retry, which would go to another mirror. If not,
then change your yum config to use a mirror you know works or try direct from
rpmforge.

Regards,

Michael.

> It seems like the packages from CentOS 5 don't have the problem, as
> they are listed without errors, I assume(!) the headers for those
> files are downloaded.
> Looking at the firewall it seems like its some problem with our
> servers ip being different for incoming and outgoing, what I mean is
> that a request to our hostname is resolving to another ip then how
> other servers see us if we request a file there.
> 
> Is there something in YUM which I can change to work around this?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Maarten
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