up2date: Using Fedora FTP Mirror Sites?

[Ken Neiser <kneiser@xxxxxxx>]

I recently tried to configure up2date to use an official Fedora Mirror 
Site, "ftp://ftp.telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/";. It didn't seem to 
work. I was using, "rhn-applet-2.1.4" at the time. Prior to this I had 
no problem using the default Fedora site for updates.

On a recent fedora-list item I saw that "rhn-applet-2.1.7", might be 
able to support this type of mirror site. I installed the rpm for 
rhn-applet-2.1.7 and configured the "sources" file for the above 
mentioned mirror site.

sources:
yum fedora-core-1 ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os
yum updates-released ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
#yum updates-testing 
ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386

After launching the up2date GUI, a "Progress Dialog:" box eventually 
shows up with a message of, "Fetching 
ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info";. 
Nothing happens after this.

I can manually download what I need from the mirror site in question 
with no problems.

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

Ken Neiser