[CentOS] vault.centos.org down

Wed Mar 2 01:00:15 UTC 2022
Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org>

On 2/03/22 12:36 pm, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> 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.

There are working mirrors you can use:

https://mirror.rackspace.com/centos-vault/


Peter