Hi,

Setup a server with Centos 4.4 - it can't connect to up2date (Centos Network) it just hangs, or yum (just hangs on getting repositories), or ssh. I checked the /var/log/secure and had the following error

socket: Address family not supported by protocol.


was also getting
error: Bind to port.... failed: Address is already in use, so followed some advice and added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf to turn off ipv6
alias net-pf-10 off

It can ping the loopback address, the gateway, and www.google.com.

I also setup an almost identical (everything same except for hard disk size) server the day before using the same set of disks and it doesn't have this problem. I also tried reinstalling the server and it has the same problem as before. If it's hardware I wouldn't know how to check it.

It has the same repo files as the working server.

I'm a relative newbie to Linux, and don't really know where to go with this next. Any help or input is much appreciated, thankyou for taking the time to look at this.

Hi,

Does anyone have *any* suggestions? I could really do with the help.

Thanks

remove the yum centos release
and then reboot the mechaine
and check ur NIC configuration and DHCP
and the firewall rule if the exist
and go to the centos ftp and try
to download the lates of centos relaese rpm package.

ihope it solve the problem

john smith