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Error Downloading metadata for repository 'digitalocean-agent'

Posted on September 20, 2020

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’:

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



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Found the problem. Had restricted all outbound traffic via the firewall.

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