#F42 Error 503 when trying to update

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I can’t download the updates anymore (since yesterday). The message is:

Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f42&arch=x86_64 (IP: 2a05:d014:10:7803:f774:4d7c:e277:a457)

Is
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
the correct solution (I found in an older issue)?

Thanks for your help!

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This is not happening for everyone. May depend on where in the world you are located.

Can you run this command and report what the output is please?

curl 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f42&arch=x86_64'
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Hi,
same here for 41.

curl https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-41&arch=x86_64

results in 503:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="//fedoraproject.org/static/css/fedora.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="//fedoraproject.org/static/css/print.css">
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="//fedoraproject.org/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
    <!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <style type="text/css">
      #wrapper
      {
      height: 100%;
      overflow: visible!important;
      }
      .download-sidebar a {
      background-image: none!important;
      }
    </style>
    <![endif]-->
    <title>Fedora Project</title>
  </head>
  <body class="503">
    <div id="wrapper">
      <div id="head">
        <h1><a href="/en/index">Fedora</a></h1>
      </div>
      <div id="sidebar">
        <div id="nav">
          <h2>Navigation</h2>
          <ul>
            <li id="nav-home"><a href="//fedoraproject.org/index">Home</a></li>
            <li id="nav-get"><a href="//fedoraproject.org/get-fedora">Get Fedora</a></li>
            <li id="nav-join"><a href="//fedoraproject.org/join-fedora">Join Fedora</a></li>
            <li id="nav-help"><a href="//fedoraproject.org/get-help">Get Help</a></li>
          </ul>
          <h2>Tools</h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="//docs.fedoraproject.org/">Docs</a> Fedora documentation.</li>
            <li><a href="//fedoraproject.org/wiki/">Wiki</a> Collaborative knowledge.</li>
            <li><a href="//fedoraplanet.org/">Planet</a> The voices of the Fedora community.</li>
            <li><a href="//fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate">Communicate</a> Speak with Fedora.</li>
            <li><a href="//fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents">Events</a> Meet the Fedora community.</li>
          </ul>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div id="content">
        <h2>Sorry!  This service is currently unavailable.</h2>
        <p>The service that you are trying to access is currently unavailable.  Please try refreshing this page in a couple of minutes.  If you still see this message, then please follow the steps below:</p>
        <ol>
          <li>Check on <a href="https://www.fedorastatus.org/">the status page</a> if there are any known outages for our services.</li>
          <li>If it is accessible, please check the <a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/day_to_day_fedora/">how to work with our team document</a> for more information.</li>
        </ol>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div id="bottom">
      <div id="footer">
        <p class="copy">
        &copy; 2010 Red Hat, Inc. and others.  For comments or queries, please <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help">contact us</a>.
        </p>
        <p class="disclaimer">
        The Fedora Project is maintained and driven by the community and sponsored by Red Hat.  This is a community maintained site.  Red Hat is not responsible for content.
        </p>
        <ul>
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        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
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related: Fedora repos down

tagging infrastructure infrastructure-team

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The output is

Fedora Project

Navigation

Tools

  • Docs Fedora documentation.
  • Wiki Collaborative knowledge.
  • Planet The voices of the Fedora community.
  • Communicate Speak with Fedora.
  • Events Meet the Fedora community.

Sorry! This service is currently unavailable.

The service that you are trying to access is currently unavailable. Please try refreshing this page in a couple of minutes. If you still see this message, then please follow the steps below:

  1. Check on the status page if there are any known outages for our services.
  2. If it is accessible, please check the how to work with our team document for more information.

© 2010 Red Hat, Inc. and others. For comments or queries, please contact us.

The Fedora Project is maintained and driven by the community and sponsored by Red Hat. This is a community maintained site. Red Hat is not responsible for content.

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see and follow: Issue #12528: Cannot update software due to 503 on https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-42&arch=x86_64 - fedora-infrastructure - Pagure.io

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Use ipv4

sudo dnf --setopt=ip_resolve=4 update
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9

The IPv4 option helps me in case of two Hetzner servers in Germany. Thanks!

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Thaks a lot, that helped!

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issue is reported to be solved. no need to force ip4 anymore.

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the same error just happened on my machine trying to talk to a german server. good thing is the solution of @leigh123linux worked fine.

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I’m from Latvia. I managed to fix it by using a VPN.