Attempting to configure an ISC BIND repository on Red Hat Linux 7.9

[Ondřej Surý]

I am actually thinking the similar thing that the COPR is being filtered from where you are. Try gnutls-cli to connect to the site whether it gives you the correct cert and everything.

Ondrej
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> On 28. 4. 2022, at 22:55, Michał Kępień <michal at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Dnf is not available. Therefore using yum
>> 
>> Linux Red Hat 7.9 virtual machine on VMware, has internet connectivity
>> 
>> Set up local repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org_results_isc_bind_epel-8-_.repo:
> 
> Is something (e.g. policy) forcing you to set this repository up
> manually?  IMHO it would have been simpler with the "copr" yum plugin.
> CentOS 7 allows installing it via "yum install yum-plugin-copr", though
> RHEL 7 seems to not have heard of a "yum-plugin-copr" package, so you
> have to prod it a bit (similarly for EPEL, which you are going to need
> for libnghttp2 if you plan to use the stable "bind" repository, which
> currently contains BIND 9.18):
> 
>    # yum install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-plugin-copr-1.1.31-54.el7_8.noarch.rpm
>    # yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
>    # yum copr enable isc/bind
>    # yum install isc-bind
> 
> (I just tested these commands on a fresh RHEL 7 Docker image.)
> 
>> now receiving error: "https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/isc/bind/epel-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 503 - Service Unavailable" for each of the sites in isc: https:// download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/isc/bind/epel-8-x86_64/    (i.e. repeats 10 x)
>> 
>> curl -k https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/isc/bind/epel-8-x86_64/  shows web page content so the connection is good
> 
> And does:
> 
>    curl -v -k https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/isc/bind/epel-7-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> output an XML file?  What IP is it trying to connect to?  Are you able
> to verify that yum tries to reach the same IP when you try to install
> packages?
> 
>> internet search indicates a possible issue with the target site (which I doubt)
> 
> It is certainly within the realm of possibility.  Copr is backed by a
> CDN, so I can imagine a situation in which the specific host you are
> connecting to from your vantage point is dysfunctional in some way while
> others are working just fine.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Michał Kępień
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