mirrorlists

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Oct 25 03:40:14 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 05:33 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 05:07 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Somebody seems to have killed the mirrorlists:
> > > 
> > > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> > > 
> > > returns:
> > > ...
> > > Fedora Core 6
> > > We are working hard to bring fedora.redhat.com back up to its fully
> > > operational state. 
> > > 
> > > Until then, please visit our BitTorrent tracker or list of mirrors if
> > > you are trying to download Fedora Core 6.
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > The URL above is the default for yum on FC5 ...
> > > 
> > 
> > We know. There's not much we can do about it.
> > 
> > Tell affected users to replace
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> > with either:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> > or
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc
> > $releasever&arch=$basearch
> > 
> > that's the best I've got for the moment.
> 
> Well, you didn't mention the cause - Am I correct in presuming this to
> be a temporary failure or is it a permanent URL change?

the cause is a massive overload of systems today due to what appears to
be both the FC6 release traffic and a DoS against redhat.com

-sv





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