Dave (RHN Team) suggested I escalate this report. Description of Problem: up2date cannot connect to RHNetwork Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RH 7.2: redhat-release-7.2-1 up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2 RH 7.1: redhat-release-7.1-1 up2date-2.7.11-7.x.1 How Reproducible: Always (across 7 colocated servers) Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date -l 2. connection times out Actual Results: Connection times out Expected Results: Package list retrieved and displayed Additional Information: Servers are not behind a firewall (direct megabit connection to the Internet) Configurations: RH 7.2: 0. storageDir /var/spool/up2date 1. networkSetup Yes 2. headerCacheSize 40 3. httpProxy 4. debug No 5. useGPG Yes 6. networkRetries 5 7. removeSkipList ['kernel*'] 8. retrieveOnly No 9. keepAfterInstall No 10. enableProxy No 11. gpgKeyRing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg 12. proxyUser 13. proxyPassword 14. headerFetchCount 10 15. versionOverride 16. useNoSSLForPackage No 17. enableProxyAuth No 18. noSSLServerURL http://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 19. noReplaceConfig Yes 20. sslCACert /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT 21. noBootLoader No 22. systemIdPath /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid 23. serverURL https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 24. pkgSkipList [] 25. adminAddress ['root@localhost'] 26. forceInstall No 27. fileSkipList [] 28. retrieveSource No RH 7.1: 0. storageDir /var/spool/up2date 1. networkSetup Yes 2. headerCacheSize 40 3. httpProxy 4. debug No 5. useGPG Yes 6. networkRetries 5 7. removeSkipList ['kernel*'] 8. retrieveOnly No 9. keepAfterInstall No 10. enableProxy No 11. proxyUser 12. proxyPassword 13. headerFetchCount 10 14. versionOverride 15. useNoSSLForPackage Yes 16. enableProxyAuth No 17. noSSLServerURL http://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 18. noReplaceConfig Yes 19. noBootLoader No 20. systemIdPath /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid 21. serverURL https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 22. pkgSkipList [] 23. adminAddress ['root@localhost'] 24. forceInstall No 25. fileSkipList [] 26. retrieveSource No Running 'up2date -l -v' stalls indefinately without any output on both servers. Occasionally, it reaches the 'Retrieiving list of all available packages...' line, but continues to stall. I ran an strace on 'up2date -l -v' and output stops just after the following block: send(5, "a\325\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\4rhns\6redhat\3com"..., 37, 0) = 37 gettimeofday({1022190215, 334283}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 1 recvfrom(5, "a\325\201\200\0\1\0\7\0\3\0\0\3www\4rhns\6redhat\3com"..., 1024, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, [16]) = 212 close(5) = 0 connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("216.148.218.170")}}, 16 It just sits there for minutes and then adds the following to the last line: = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) /var/log/up2date shows this: [Thu May 23 17:43:32 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #1 On the other hand, when I do 'lynx https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC', it will connect just fine and give me a 'Method Not Allowed' error. This was done to verify that I could connect to port 443 from the servers.
Adrian, Any comment on this one? Probably anomalous, but...
Six months old, prolly regional connectivity issue, closing.