gnu.org and nongnu.org up again!
<2026-06-06T12:23:00+03:00> tech:gnu:web:
For some time, the gnu.org and nongnu.org websites were down, and partly(or wholly) unavailable. However, this morning I found that they were up so this is in congratulations to them.
Seemingly from the link in the savannah.nongnu.org news page, they needed to establish some secondary git servers for Savannah users could download from as there was an increased load on their servers. I myself was recently trying to install some GNUstep packages to compile from source on my machine. This is great news, so congratulations to them!.
In their words:
All HTTP (including HTTPS) traffic related to our hosted git repositories is now being redirected to our volunteer provided mirrors network. This is being done to lighten the load on the primary host, conserving its availability for member ("authorized user") access. See the below list or the linked note from Bob, architect of the […]
posted by carlc, Sat 30 May 2026 08:40:40 AM UTC
However, this is just a week earlier, so it makes me wonder if that was the only reason that they were temporarily down? Perhaps they were under some persistent DDoS? Nevertheless this distributes traffic in equal loads so it could be a functional solution.