up2date and yum not working?

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:19:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 19:09, fred vachon wrote:
> >You might try using one of the mirrors in yum.conf rather than the
> > main Fedora download server.  It might be having some problems.  I
> > had similiar problem today trying to use yum which had been fine in
> > the past.  I switched to one of the mirrors and was fine.  You can
> > find the mirrors at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> I commented the fedora.redhat.com url line out, then reconstructed it 
> with about 4 of the other east coast addresses but wasn't able to 
> make yum talk to any of them.  I finally grabbed the updates with 
> konqi and installed them with rpm.
> 

If it makes any difference, I've been having problems with the 
mirrors being really slow lately (last few days). I just assumed 
the servers were busy. I'm running  and yum FC2 and using east 
coast mirrors.