Re: HTTP 503 when downloading install images

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

> First it could be a geographical cache based issue (archive.netbsd.org
> is backed by a fastly CDN). For diagnostics it is good to know which
> cache fails for you.
> 
> https://docs.fastly.com/en/guides/checking-cache
> 
> which also explains the fastly-debug header.
(curl output below for a file that immediately 503s)

> Then it becomes slightly tricky whom to make it fix - either fastly
> or the NetBSD admins running the backend server. This sounds like a 
> case for the latter (I can reproduce it right now)
I'd assume it's the backend, most downloads immediately 503, but https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-8.2/images/NetBSD-8.2-amd64-install.img.gz consistently fails after 42991616 bytes, which is 41MiB exactly.  Not sure it it's significant, but those 41M probably come from the cache.

> so I'll ping admins@
Thanks!