Updating Busted By Busy Servers?

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, billg wrote:

> Much updating weirdness the last few hours:
> 
> I reinstalled FC1 this afternoon. Once the install finished, I went
> straight to up2date.  Judging by the extremely slow transfer rates,  the
> servers were pegged.  When the transfer of a given file would apparently
> time out (as indicated by the up2date progress bar) several minutes would
> pass and then up2date would display a notice that the package's gpg was
> invalid.  However, that was not the case, because the message did not
> reappear when I subsequently managed to successfully download those
> packages.
> 
> Eventually updated everything I need successfully, but 'twas a pain.
> 
> billg

Had the same thing happen. Yep, their servers are pegged because everyone 
is trying to download a corrupt 40 meg kernel source file and a kernel 
update from Fedora, and a non-corrupted kernel update for RedHat 7-9.

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