Well, Ed. I guess I have to look closer to home for my problems with yum. yum update, and the fedora/primary_db part goes just fine, maxes my connection. Then updates/primary_db bogs down to averaging a kilobyte per second. The mirror for both is riken this time, here in Japan, FWIW. Should unblock the .cn domain to see if I can find out more. HTTP access has no problems, even while yum is bogged down.
Do we have problems in the mirrors, or has my database for updates/primary_db gone wonky? Clean all doesn't help. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: >> On 01/02/2013 08:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: >>>> Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2012, Joel Rees sent: >>>>> I'm beginning to think the ISP has throttled me for yum. >>>> Could just be the time of the year, with more traffic than usual. >>> Definitely a possibility, particularly considering the timing. New >>> Year's morning here was impossible. >>> >>> But not for the whole net. >>> >>> Read in the newspapers there were some attacks in progress in the >>> Chinese segment around that time, so that might have also been part of >>> it. >> >> I live in Taiwan and work with folks in China. No problems for me to >> connect and transfer files. Also, my wife watches streaming video from >> China and she has had no problems during the times you were citing. I >> avoided making any comments at that time since this lists isn't a forum for >> political or country bashing. Even though they may not comment on this >> list, please note that folks in countries being bashed do read this list and >> some of them may take offense. >> > > Thanks for the different point of view. > > I should have been specific about the attacks being "cyber attacks" or > "internet attacks", but I didn't read the articles, just the > headlines, so, who knows? > > Mea culpa. I'll look for the articles in the old newspaper pile if > you're interested in what was being said. > > BTW, did you try pulling down updates on the 29th to 31st after about 11:00 > pm? > > All I know for sure is that yum on my netbook kept getting hung up > trying to read repositories on Chinese mirrors, so I installed > fastestmirror and blocked .cn domains, and that seemed to help. > > It's the only box I have that runs Fedora right now. > > apt-get on my Debian systems had no issues, neither was there any > particular problem getting to websites. Different set of mirrors. The > Fedora mirrors in China that seemed to hang me up were all university > mirrors. Possibilities that crossed my mind was that students were > celebrating on the 'net or that the government's filters were hard at > work against the universities. Saw the headlines the next day and > assumed there had been DOS and other attacks going on. > > -- > Joel Rees -- -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
