diff --git a/eng/Version.Details.xml b/eng/Version.Details.xml
index 2efcc7ae278e7..148bd1902c0ed 100644
--- a/eng/Version.Details.xml
+++ b/eng/Version.Details.xml
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@
   <ProductDependencies>
   </ProductDependencies>
   <ToolsetDependencies>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk" Version="1.0.0-beta.21116.3">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk" Version="1.0.0-beta.21118.7">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/arcade</Uri>
-      <Sha>1c06c541c2dc6edb3d652cb092785eb341ef8331</Sha>
+      <Sha>4957a6f3dd5f6fd1ca9ff06f9c50402f2e3b17e8</Sha>
     </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset" Version="3.10.0-1.21113.12">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn</Uri>
       <Sha>69f354dd21df8dac374c35169bdabb9000cfdea3</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk" Version="2.0.0-beta.21116.3">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk" Version="2.0.0-beta.21118.7">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/arcade</Uri>
-      <Sha>1c06c541c2dc6edb3d652cb092785eb341ef8331</Sha>
+      <Sha>4957a6f3dd5f6fd1ca9ff06f9c50402f2e3b17e8</Sha>
     </Dependency>
   </ToolsetDependencies>
 </Dependencies>
diff --git a/eng/common/tools.sh b/eng/common/tools.sh
index acbb0c5b3ffd7..4df7e60e884e9 100755
--- a/eng/common/tools.sh
+++ b/eng/common/tools.sh
@@ -234,6 +234,28 @@ function InstallDotNet {
   }
 }
 
+function with_retries {
+  local maxRetries=5
+  local retries=1
+  echo "Trying to run '$@' for maximum of $maxRetries attempts."
+  while [[ $((retries++)) -le $maxRetries ]]; do
+    "$@"
+
+    if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
+      echo "Ran '$@' successfully."
+      return 0
+    fi
+
+    timeout=$((3**$retries-1))
+    echo "Failed to execute '$@'. Waiting $timeout seconds before next attempt ($retries out of $maxRetries)." 1>&2
+    sleep $timeout
+  done
+
+  echo "Failed to execute '$@' for $maxRetries times." 1>&2
+
+  return 1
+}
+
 function GetDotNetInstallScript {
   local root=$1
   local install_script="$root/dotnet-install.sh"
@@ -246,13 +268,22 @@ function GetDotNetInstallScript {
 
     # Use curl if available, otherwise use wget
     if command -v curl > /dev/null; then
+      # first, try directly, if this fails we will retry with verbose logging
       curl "$install_script_url" -sSL --retry 10 --create-dirs -o "$install_script" || {
-        local exit_code=$?
-        Write-PipelineTelemetryError -category 'InitializeToolset' "Failed to acquire dotnet install script (exit code '$exit_code')."
-        ExitWithExitCode $exit_code
+        if command -v openssl &> /dev/null
+        then
+          echo "Curl failed; dumping some information about dotnet.microsoft.com for later investigation"
+          echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -servername dotnet.microsoft.com  -connect dotnet.microsoft.com:443
+        fi
+        echo "Will now retry the same URL with verbose logging."
+        with_retries curl "$install_script_url" -sSL --verbose --retry 10 --create-dirs -o "$install_script" || {
+          local exit_code=$?
+          Write-PipelineTelemetryError -category 'InitializeToolset' "Failed to acquire dotnet install script (exit code '$exit_code')."
+          ExitWithExitCode $exit_code
+        }
       }
-    else 
-      wget -q -O "$install_script" "$install_script_url" || {
+    else
+      with_retries wget -v -O "$install_script" "$install_script_url" || {
         local exit_code=$?
         Write-PipelineTelemetryError -category 'InitializeToolset' "Failed to acquire dotnet install script (exit code '$exit_code')."
         ExitWithExitCode $exit_code
@@ -267,7 +298,7 @@ function InitializeBuildTool {
   if [[ -n "${_InitializeBuildTool:-}" ]]; then
     return
   fi
-  
+
   InitializeDotNetCli $restore
 
   # return values
diff --git a/global.json b/global.json
index 810dceca21e9f..b506768176d21 100644
--- a/global.json
+++ b/global.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "xcopy-msbuild": "16.8.0-preview2.1"
   },
   "msbuild-sdks": {
-    "Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk": "1.0.0-beta.21116.3",
-    "Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk": "2.0.0-beta.21116.3"
+    "Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk": "1.0.0-beta.21118.7",
+    "Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk": "2.0.0-beta.21118.7"
   }
 }