During yum update we received a "[Errno 4] Socket Error"
Issue
- Error received when attempting to update my server with
yum
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno 4] Socket Error:
Name or service not known
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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