HTTP 503 when downloading install images

[Timo Buhrmester <timo%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

Yesterday I got HTTP 503 immediately upon attempting to download an install image, today the download starts for a bit but aborts; the 2nd attempt then 503s.  Transcript below.


$ wget 'https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-8.2/images/NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz'
--2025-04-04 12:20:29--  https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-8.2/images/NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz
Resolving http-proxy (http-proxy)... 2a00:5ba0:20:6a::113, 2a00:5ba0:20:6a::115, 2a00:5ba0:20:6a::114, ...
Connecting to http-proxy (http-proxy)|2a00:5ba0:20:6a::113|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1031501395 (984M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz’

NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz                                   4%[=====>                                                                                                                                                 ]  41.00M   602KB/s    in 2m 12s  

2025-04-04 12:22:42 (318 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 42991616. Retrying.

--2025-04-04 12:22:43--  (try: 2)  https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-8.2/images/NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz
Connecting to http-proxy (http-proxy)|2a00:5ba0:20:6a::113|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout
2025-04-04 12:22:45 ERROR 503: Backend unavailable, connection timeout.

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