[mythtv-users] 403 forbidden when apt is connecting to freshrpms.net

[Pete]

Bradley Hennon wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I dont know what going on here.  
>Fresh Install of FC3. 
>Using Jarod's guide.
>I install atrpms-kickstart and am unable to install myth or do a
>dist-upgrade. Here a snip of the error:
>
>****snip****
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-display 1.0.24-1
>  403 Forbidden
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-printer-gui 0.6.116.1.4-1
>  403 Forbidden
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-printer 0.6.116.1.4-1
>  403 Forbidden
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-samba 1.2.28-0.fc3.1
>  403 Forbidden
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-securitylevel-tui 1.4.18-2
>  403 Forbidden
>Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates
>system-config-securitylevel 1.4.18-2
>  403 Forbidden
>****snip****
>
>-I have wiped the machine and re-installed FC3.
>-Can't install apt because "it is allready installed. "
>-Can't remove apt because "it is allready installed". 
>-Removed the APT folder and forced an install using the rpm from the
>freshrpms site and still receive the errors.
>Tried YUM and also received a 403 forbidden.
>
>
>any help would be greatly appreciated. I am going to re-install FC3
>for the third time and try apt without the atrpms-kiskcstart and see
>what happens
>
>thanks
>Brad
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I think this is similar to what happened to me a while back. It seems 
that Axel has a guard on his site for bandwidth moochers, so if someone 
connects X times to download in a short amount of time, then him or his 
ISP will auto lock out your IP. In my case, it was a new setup as well, 
so I'm not exactly sure why I got blacklisted, but I did. Search the 
archives for an email from him, grab the email address, and ask him 
nicely explaining what happened. He removed me and I haven't been 
blacklisted again either.

Why this happens, I dunno. You're story sounds similar to mine (although 
I was using yum). I figure it has to be something that causes FC3 to 
fire off some huge number of connections for some reason right after 
installing the kickstart packages, although for the life of me I can't 
imagine where that bug would come from.