DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 16 August 2008, g wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
><snip>
>
>> Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for
>> fedora
>
>could this be a part of problem?
>
>++++
>
>>From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
>
>To: fedora-announce-list <fedora-announce-list at redhat.com>
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:13 -0400
>Subject: Important infrastructure announcement
>
>The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in
>the infrastructure systems.  That process may result in service outages,
>for which we apologize in advance.  We're still assessing the end-user
>impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not
>download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems.
>
>We'll share updates as we develop more information.  Those updates will
>be published here on the public fedora-announce-list:
>https://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
>
>Thanks for your patience as we continue working on this.
>++++
>
With all due respect for Paul, an announcement like this truly belongs on the 
mail list, not on some list only 2% are subbed to.

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