I have a CentOS 8 based droplet and from today, dnf/yum update/install commands are not working. I am getting the following error now: DigitalOcean Agent 0.0 B/s | 0 B 01:20Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘digitalocean-agent’: Curl error (6): Couldn’t resolve host name for https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/yum/do-agent/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: repos.insights.digitalocean.com ]Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘digitalocean-agent’: Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried I have tried running on 2 different droplets and got the same error.

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Error Downloading metadata for repository 'digitalocean-agent'

Posted on September 20, 2020

CentOS 8

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By Navjot Singh

I have a CentOS 8 based droplet and from today, dnf/yum update/install commands are not working. I am getting the following error now:

DigitalOcean Agent 0.0 B/s | 0 B 01:20
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘digitalocean-agent’:

Curl error (6): Couldn’t resolve host name for https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/yum/do-agent/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: repos.insights.digitalocean.com] Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘digitalocean-agent’: Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

I have tried running on 2 different droplets and got the same error.

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