[chef] how to doing polling in a recipe

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Currently remote_file resource keeps getting the following error:

Error connecting to
http://SOMEURL/yum/5/x86_64/omakase-release-5-2.noarch.rpm -
Connection timed out - connect(2)

Basically the network configuration is not ready when the recipe got 
triggered.
I would hope there is a resource I can use to wait and poll the status.

Is there a way to fix this?