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

Tue Sep 16 14:58:08 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 06:37 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> 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.

The Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering teams are looking at
this problem as we speak.  I wouldn't be surprised if this is fixed
within the next 24 hours.

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