(DOS?) was Re: i386.newkey f8 vanished!

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Joel Rees wrote:
>>On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Andrea Mastellone wrote:
>>> Mike wrote:
>>>> It seems that the directory:
>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/
>>>> i386.newkey
>>>> has disappeared from the main download server so yum update is not
>>>> working today.
>>>
>>> Same for F9 updates-testing
>>>
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/
>>> 9/i386.newkey
>>
>>bugzilla is inaccessible, was inaccessible last night. I can get one
>>page, then everything is errors.
>>
> The updates repo has gone away, remove it from your yum.repos.d.

Gene, check again. updates/8/i386 and updates/8/i386.newkey are back
on line. Also, there is no way that the update/8/i386 will disappear
until F8 EOL. The old repository is required to point new installs to
the newkey repos.


>>I'm guessing RedHat is getting DOSsed. Any of you guys good at
>>countermeasures?
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> --
> Cheers, Gene