(DOS?) was Re: i386.newkey f8 vanished!

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Bob Marcan <bob.marcan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:54:27 +0900
> Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Andrea Mastellone wrote:
>>
>> > Mike wrote:
>> >> It seems that the directory:
>> >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/
>> >> i386.newkey
>> >> has disappeared from the main download server so yum update is not
>> >> working today.
>> >
>> > Same for F9 updates-testing
>> >
>> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/
>> > 9/i386.newkey
>>
>> bugzilla is inaccessible, was inaccessible last night. I can get one
>> page, then everything is errors.
>>
>> I'm guessing RedHat is getting DOSsed. Any of you guys good at
>> countermeasures?
>>
>
> Few hours ago there was:
>  updates/8/i386.newkey
>  updates/8/i386.newkey.newkey
>
> Now is vanished both.
>
> Regards, Bob

Checked two other mirrors and found that updates/8/i386 and
updates/8/i386.newkey are gone. However, the F9 updates/9/i386 and
updates/9/i386.newkey are still there.

More likely, some one goofed up and removed both directories at Fedora
and the mirrors synced up to match.