I've noticed over the past few days, that getting into that 'mirror' can
sometimes take a long time, causing things to 'time out' for urpmi and
RPMDrake - resulting in an assortment of error messages. I've had Lynx
hanging on for several minutes, trying to make an FTP connection there.
Lynx is very patient though and does get through eventually

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