fedora 17 is a dead version
you might as well uninstall yum
there are and never will be any updates to fedora 17
Please stay current and install Fedora 19
or in January / February install Fedora 20
netflix needs Microsoft's "silverlight" and Microsoft's "DotNet Framwork "
preferably running on Microsoft's Windows 7 or 8.1
now
there is an custom built hack using the microsoft version of firefox running in wine
with DotNet installed and silverlight
it might still work
see
-- fedora 19 instructions
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=286230
but fedora 17 is dead and unsupported
the instructions are for fedora 19
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postinstaller/