I know that we've had a new release and that some congestion regarding
downloads is to be expected, but the current problems is beyond what
I've experienced on previous occasions. It seems more or less impossible
to download anything at present. I'm often not even able to get the P2
meta-data.
By viewing the logs, I see that requests to download.eclipse.org gets
redirected to an Amazon cloudfront server. That server then responds
with an XML stream similar to this: