Description of problem: Yum configuration files from 'fedora-release-5-5' package have entries like: mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever As of this morning an attempt to retrieve such file ends up with "Access failed: 404 Not Found (/download/mirrors/fedora-core-5)" and this makes yum to fail. Yes, _I_ know that URL in this mirrorlist can be replaced by another one pointing to a script on http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ but this will trip multitudes of existing installations. One would hope for a redirection from an old location to the new one or, in the worst case, an update of fedora-release package before an old URL was gone. Or this is only a temporary hiccup on http://fedora.redhat.com/? That URL does exists but a download directory is gone. An update to fedora-release package cannot work reliably as there is no way to tell when it will applied in a particular case. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora-release-5-5
Due to significant load, possibly from a DDoS attack, the redirects that would have made this work have temporarily been disabled. This will cause the errors you're seeing. Once we sort out the load issues, we'll be able to turn this back on. Please be patient.