[CentOS] vault.centos.org down

Tue Mar 1 23:36:55 UTC 2022
Nels Lindquist <nlindq at maei.ca>

On 2022/03/01 10:35 a.m., Simon Matter wrote:
>> 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.

I've been unable to access it at all for the past couple of days, either 
through a browser or yum.

Nels Lindquist
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