On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 00:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
download.opensuse.org is much too frequently inaccessible or timing out from my SE USA location, as it is now, as reported by zypper ref unable to locate valid repodata and timouts on repomd.xml. This recurring situation is especially true late on Fridays and through the weekends.
As Tumbleweed does not have the concept of 'maintenance releases' (it's a rolling distro; the update channel is barely used) the download.o.o/update/tumbleweed setup is 'just a hack' using apache redirects (which are obviously not copied to other mirrors). In fact, the redirect bring you to: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Update/standard... which in turn is part of the standard mirror infrastructure. Hope that helps, Dominique