YUM problems.

[Kam Leo]

On 10/1/07, Magnus Andersen <mag.andersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Found out what the problem was.  1&1 blocks all traffic (except ssh)
> to and from the server by default.  You have to call support and ask
> them to open up your server.  Once that was done everything worked
> like a charm.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> --
> Magnus Andersen
> Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA
> Walker & Associates, Inc.
>
I just browsed http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/
and directories for Fedora 5 and 6 are present. I didn't do anything
different from the last visit. I have no idea why the directories were
not available of 5 days ago.

Is 1&1 your ISP? Are you saying that they blocked your use of FTP and HTTP?