yum problems

[seth vidal]

> I've been away since Tuesday, so have a lot of catching up to do with
> yum. As a single user (i.e. ctrl alt f1 and login), I started yum. Fine,
> it downloaded the tonne of headers, I said yes and since then have had
> to restart yum four or five times as the download has just stopped.
> 
> The program hasn't crashed as such; I can get out using ctrl c, just the
> download has died.
> 
> Any ideas how to combat this very annoying problem?
> 

Are you behind a transparent proxy or a proxy of some sort?
What mirror are you using?
-sv