[SOLVED] error: Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds

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EDIT: it was a DNS lookup problem. I don't know why but it is better to manually specify nameservers in resolv.conf than in the home router control panel (a NETGEAR DGN2200v3). See the #3 post.
Hi
I just installed arch and I need to downgrade to xorg 1.12 to be able to use catalyst proprietary driver (legacy).
As I read into the wiki, I added the two required repos:
[catalyst-hd234k]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/catalyst-hd234k/$arch
[xorg112]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/xorg112/$arch
when I try to do an update, I get "database file does not exist".
In logs appears a curl error 28, timeout error, but the repository is online (I can ping it and I can browse its contents with firefox).
What can I do?
sudo LANG=C pacman -Syy
warning: database file for 'xorg112' does not exist
warning: database file for 'catalyst-hd234k' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'xorg112.db' from catalyst.wirephire.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to update xorg112 (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'catalyst-hd234k.db' from catalyst.wirephire.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to update catalyst-hd234k (download library error)
core 105.0 KiB 122K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
extra 1412.9 KiB 418K/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
community 1929.7 KiB 447K/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
multilib 95.7 KiB 115K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
Last edited by yell! (2013-03-10 14:16:22)

Answer 1

yell! wrote:
thanks for replying. I edited the first post.
Solved:
After a lot of hours trying wget, aria2 and curl, with a lot of options, I just stopped observing pacman output behaviour in the console.
Seemed that it was a DNS lookup problem but, in my resolv.conf, the specified nameserver was my home router.
Anyway, I changed that specifying google's nameservers; is working now. It's a weird thing because in my homerouter I was already using google's nameservers. 
Now I can open the repos in browser without lag.
Example of my resolv.conf:
Before:
# home router nameserver
nameserver 192.168.0.1
After:
#Google nameservers
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Thanks you help me so much love you