needs-restarting utility fails with Could not resolve host: rhui3.REGION.aws.ce.redhat.com on AWS EC2 instance

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Issue

  • needs-restarting utility fails with Could not resolve host: rhui3.REGION.aws.ce.redhat.com on AWS EC2 instance
  • /bin/needs-restarting utility fails to access RHUI repositories in AWS EC2 throwing different errors.

    [root@ip-10-0-0-17 ~]# needs-restarting -s
    Could not retrieve mirrorlist https://rhui3.REGION.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/protected/rhui-client- 
    config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os error was
    14: curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: rhui3.REGION.aws.ce.redhat.com; Unknown error"
    Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rhui-client-config-server-7/x86_64
    [root@ip-10-0-0-17 ~]# 
    
    [root@ip-10-0-0-17 ~]# needs-restarting -s
    failure: repodata/aeb68de97a3a74e9d1986e94cce8c01e51fc732f857012b0f5522d7a98bd82d7-filelists.xml.gz from rhui-client-config-server-7: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
    https://rhui3.us-east-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/repos/protected/rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os/repodata/aeb68de97a3a74e9d1986e94cce8c01e51fc732f857012b0f5522d7a98bd82d7-filelists.xml.gz: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 403 - Forbidden
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
  • Amazon Web Services EC2

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