Error 404 causes "Failed to download metadata for repo 'updates'"; Problem on mirror or mine?

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So I’ve got a nasty persistent problem with dnf where I can’t update my fedora 30 distro and dnf clean all + dnf update --refresh isn’t really helping me solve this problem.

Here’s an excerpt from /var/log/dng.log

2019-10-28T02:59:27Z DEBUG repo: downloading from remote: updates
2019-10-28T02:59:32Z DEBUG error: Status code: 404 for https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/6255dba72f321f1d14036889c8df466590d7d5f0fcd95192c07843943c2bf871-primary.xml.zck (https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/6255dba72f321f1d14036889c8df466590d7d5f0fcd95192c07843943c2bf871-primary.xml.zck).
2019-10-28T02:59:32Z DEBUG error: Status code: 404 for https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/f3ce3be1bfa81d71bc5a4abb459feb0cd4b1a877548beb72a33c311ad35cf861-filelists.xml.zck (https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/f3ce3be1bfa81d71bc5a4abb459feb0cd4b1a877548beb72a33c311ad35cf861-filelists.xml.zck).
2019-10-28T02:59:38Z DEBUG error: Status code: 404 for https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/6255dba72f321f1d14036889c8df466590d7d5f0fcd95192c07843943c2bf871-primary.xml.zck (https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/6255dba72f321f1d14036889c8df466590d7d5f0fcd95192c07843943c2bf871-primary.xml.zck).
2019-10-28T02:59:38Z DEBUG error: Status code: 404 for https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/f3ce3be1bfa81d71bc5a4abb459feb0cd4b1a877548beb72a33c311ad35cf861-filelists.xml.zck (https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/f3ce3be1bfa81d71bc5a4abb459feb0cd4b1a877548beb72a33c311ad35cf861-filelists.xml.zck).
2019-10-28T03:00:05Z DDEBUG Cleaning up.
2019-10-28T03:00:05Z SUBDEBUG

I’ve actually checked it myself at https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/30/Everything/x86_64/repodata/
and indeed those aren’t there
Does this mean there is a problem with this mirror or is the problem lying on my side?

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The problem is at the mirror. It may not have synchronised yet. Give a couple of days and the issue should resolve by itself. You can check the following link to see what mirrors dnf might use for you:

https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f30&arch=x86_64

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I see, I’ve been experiencing this problem since last week so I was starting to wonder about it already
In any case, thanks for that and I’ll mark your answer as the solution should a different mirror actually work

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Thanks for that, changing my mirror actually worked though I really like to avoid that https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org because it has huge tendencies to fallback to http-only mirrors which is pretty bad for security on my perspective

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