numerous errors trying to update with yum

[Will Backman]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 06:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   is anyone else having download/update problems with yum? i've had
> nothing but grief trying to do something as simple as "yum list updates".
> 

It would be nice if the fedora repo folks would give a http 503 error
after a certain load.  up2date could catch that, and give a meaningful
error, such as "503: server overloaded, try a mirror"