I am subscribed to these channels:
fedora-core-1
yum channel fedora-core-1 from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
updates-released
yum channel updates-released from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
The URL listed in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is: serverURL=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
Wouldn't these be the central places to download from?
I will try one of the mirrors - perhaps the data is just getting corrupted because of a slow connection?
-- Russell