[CentOS] vault.centos.org down

Tue Mar 1 17:35:28 UTC 2022
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> On 2/28/22 23:46, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Yes, also mostly down for me. Some requests were answered but unable to
>> really use the site.
>
>
> Is it just overloaded?  I've seen a few examples recently of people
> building CentOS 8 containers by building repo definitions that reference
> vault.  Naturally, I asked them to stop doing that...
>
> If overload is the problem, I'd suggest that making the site *less*
> reliable might eventually fix the problem.  In particular, dropping
> requests for repomd.xml would probably shed a lot of load while still
> giving human users access to package files.

In my case I was just trying with firefox to get some files and browsing
wasn't possible at all. Suddenly some pages were shown and then connection
was stuck again. However, currently it works fine for me.

Simon