Topic: Mirrorlist not working?

[eastend99]

While reistalling a SME8 server, I added the sme7contribs repostory http://wiki.contribs.org/SME8.0_Contribs_QA#Setup
After that the system is unable to retrieve the mirrorlist from mirrorlist.contribs.org.

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yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protect-packages, smeserver
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeextras-8 error was
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: smeextras
When I tried to ping the host this was the result:

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ping mirrorlist.contribs.org
PING mirror.canada.pialasse.com (198.245.62.87) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from canada.pialasse.com (198.245.62.87): icmp_seq=190 ttl=54 time=219 ms

--- mirror.canada.pialasse.com ping statistics ---
288 packets transmitted, 1 received, 99% packet loss, time 291982ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 219.537/219.537/219.537/0.000 ms

My location is NL.

Anything wrong with this host?
What can I do to retrieve a mirrorlist from another location?

[stephdl]

what is the output of

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db yum_repositories show sme7contribs
maybe you have to restore the default yum repositories

http://wiki.contribs.org/Useful_Commands#Restoring_Default_Yum_Repositories

[CharlieBrady]

After that the system is unable to retrieve the mirrorlist from mirrorlist.contribs.org.

The site appears to be working now.

IMO, that site should be moved to a CDN hosted website, for scalability and reliability reasons.