George About a dozen distros use RIT as a mirror, and the RIT server is non-functional at this point, regardless of distro. I tried to download Ubuntu from the RIT server yesterday (using Firefox running on Solus Budgie) and the result was three failed download attempts over the course of an afternoon. The issue is also OS and browser agnostic. I had no better luck this morning downloading Solus DE's using Microsoft Edge running on Windows 11:
Whatever the issue might be (overloading, firewall bugs, choke settings, mutant aliens, whatever), the issue is at RIT.
The current failures don't bother me so much as the fact that the problem, although intermittent, also keeps repeating. We've had the issue on and off for several years. I don't remember it ever being this bad, but if you read back in the forum, you'll find a lot of discussion of broken update downloads, usually blamed on a faulty Software Center, but always ending up in "sudo eopkg up repeat and repeat" solutions, which itself tells anyone paying attention that the problem is upstream.
At some point after this go-round settles down, I think the Solus team should consider relocating to a more reliable mirror, before reviews like this one from Distrowatch last week become commonplace:
