Hello All, There might me some problem in the server. I get this error when I try to wget something: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wget http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/sqlite-devel-3.6.17-1.i386.rpm http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/sqlite-devel-3.6.17-1.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> Trying other mirror. Error Downloading Packages: sqlite-devel-3.6.17-1.i386: failure: sqlite-devel-3.6.17-1.i386.rpm from chl: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the problem in most of the cases. Sometimes wget,ping, etc. works but most of the time it creates problems. Can anyone tell why this is happening and is there a solution to it. Thanks.
as the error says "Temporary failure in name resolution" the problem is of temporary nature and has nothing to do with site directly nor with your PC unless you run your OWN NS server in your own box as I do since 10 years. this error may by because your ISP's NS may be temporarily unavailable, down for maintenance or other similar reasons try to figure out where exactly the problem is for example by using different ISP if you can use your home ISP vs any public wifi hotspot or mobile ISP to compare if same problem or success to pin point possible root cause of problem or using other DNS if you can locally configure ( you could temporarily use any of the public NS such as the Google operated public NS 8.8.8.8 ) if you have a Linux box at home, test name resolution dig yum.chrislea.com if no result then test same query using a.m. public Google NS dig @8.8.8.8 yum.chrislea.com many years back a major national ISP had substantial parts of IPs from a major host missing = empty pages or site not fond errors if it is your ISP after multiple tests may be you directly contact ISP and make aware of issue