On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:27:22 -0500
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thank you Troy

The cause has been found and this time it was not related to the
repository but client side. That said its not the first time a user had
this problem so I will follow your advice.

> First - Put another line in your repo's.  At the very least, if you want to 
> connect the the main repo, put in a line to http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/ and 
> then ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/.
> http works better with yum, and is the reason that all the recent yum-conf's 
> originally point to http.  We found out that yum (actually python's geturl) 
> does some odd stuff with ftp protocols.

Ok I will do this in our documentation now.

> Second - Next time you get this error, let me know.  Tell me when (down to the 
> second if possible, we get several hundred hits a second usually) and from what 
> IP address.  I'll look through the server logs, and maybe something will show up.

Ok definitely.

Thanks for the support.

Regards

Owen