Yum update is not working showing "gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution"

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I am trying to upgrade my RHEL server (V6.4).
But getting this error as follow,

gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution
2018-03-20 09:55:19,064 [ERROR] @virt-who.py:173 - Unable to recover, retry in 60 seconds.
2018-03-20 09:56:52,129 [ERROR] @virt-who.py:212 - Error in communication with subscription manager, trying to recover:

Seems like DNS Issue, but not able to fix this.

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Hi,

Just a possibility that might help you.

gaierror stands for "getadressinfo error".

It can happen when there is a wrong character in the hostname. For example, an additional whitespace or other unprintable character...

Regards,

Dusan Baljevic (amateur radio VK2COT)

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