Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

[Bob Goodwin USA]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum
> updates.  
>
> unname -a results in :
>
> Linux XXXX.Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT
> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> When I tried to do so manually with the command :
>
> yum update
>
> I receive the follow error message:
>
> Determining fastest mirrors
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64
> error was
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
>
> Has this happened to anyone else?
>
> Greg Ennis
>
>   

Yes, I believe it is the result of system problems. 

Bob