Is ftp.ydl.net broken for access from YUM?

[Thomas Carlson]

Change the /etc/yum.conf file so that  it points to one of the mirrors  
instead of ftp.ydl.net.  That will solve your problem.

Tom

On Apr 4, 2004, at 11:15 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

>
> On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 02:51 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote:
>
>>
>> When I try to do a "yum update" against ftp.ydl.net, I get
>>
>> 	421 There are too many connections from your Internet Address.
>>
>> Regular ftp (via wget) works just fine for the same file...
>>
>> Clues?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>
> I've gotten no reply from <support@ydl.net> so far (April 5th).
>
> Are there any other YDL.net/enhanced members on the list that can try  
> this and report their results?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> =============================================================
>
> # yum update
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 YDLupdates
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 YDLbase
> IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connections from  
> your internet address.
> URL:  
> ftp://rbthomas:*password*@ftp.ydl.net/yellowdog/yum/3.0/base/headers/ 
> header.
> info
> #
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