Yes.  I had the same experience.

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 18:13 +0200, David Kinnvall wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Due to a failing "yum check-update" I noticed that the file named
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> seems to be empty, i.e broken. The other .xml-files in that same dir
> are not empty and the config I use for the dag rpms used to work fine.
> 
> For reference, my /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo contains the following:
> 
> --- snip ---
> [dag]
> name=DAG rpms
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag/
> enabled=1
> --- snip ---
> 
> Anybody else noticed this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David