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[NuclearCookie]

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Host platform: Archlinux

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http://arduino.esp8266.com appears offline.
I cannot use http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json to add it to my build manager.
I also cannot build from source becaues the dependency http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json is also offline.

According to IsItDown, site has been offline for 3 days.

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/arduino.esp8266.com.html

Please fix or provide alternatives :) Thanks!

[igrr]

That's an interesting one. I can open arduino.esp8266.com both in browser and in in command line with curl. However if i connect to a VPN in Japan, i can't resolve the IP.

@NuclearCookie can you check if opening http://download.igrr.me/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json in a browser works for you?

If it works, then likely there is some issue with esp8266.com DNS. If it doesn't, then it's some other issue.

[NuclearCookie]

Hi @igrr,

Thanks for the swift response.
The link you sent works fine in my browser.

I thought at first that the adress might not have been available behind my firewall, but I tried on my phone using cellular data and even then I can't access the page. (I'm in Belgium).

Any suggestion?

[igrr]

I guess that's some DNS issue with arduino.esp8266.com record. I don't have access to this configuration though, maybe @themindfactory can check?

[beicnet]

Yes, same here "This site can’t be reached",...

Regards

[per1234]

I get "Server not found" for http://arduino.esp8266.com/ and http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
I'm located in the United States

I get an error in the Arduino IDE:

Error downloading http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

whenever this happens and I first noticed it a couple hours ago. I'd be surprised I hadn't seen it earlier if it's really been 3 days.

[nazgee]

same here (Poland)
if that's the DNS issue, can anyone provide a server's IP address?

[wolter]

104.131.82.128 seems to work - unfortunately this not sufficient. hence I use the github version and even there you need to replace the url in the package file inside the package folder with this ip. but this seems to do the trick... cheers, sascha.

[igrr]

Based on the bandwidth graphs, i think DNS only went down today (also i got the monitoring notifications a few minutes before this issue was opened).

[NuclearCookie]

@wolter How did you manage to do that? If I replace the http://arduino.esp8266.com by the IP, I get errors from python that the requiest is an unknown url type

raise ValueError("unknown url type: %r" % self.full_url)
ValueError: unknown url type: '104.131.82.128/linux64-xtensa-lx106-elf-gb404fb9.tar.gz'

I kind of need this today so even if it's through a hack, I'd be super happy :)

[ScruffR]

@NuclearCookie , this link works for me in Arduino IDE too
http://download.igrr.me/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

[NuclearCookie]

Hi @ScruffR, That works indeed, but it doesn't fix the problem because that files just references to files on the arduino.esp8266 website. It's not a full mirror of the repository :(

[wolter]

@NuclearCookie : I guess, you removed the http? I attached my package_esp8266com_index.template.json (folder Arduino\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\package) for your convenience (
package_esp8266com_index.template.json.txt
). Hope, it helps. Unfortunately this is not a generic solution, because IPs can change...

[wolter]

btw these are the instructions how to use the github version: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino#using-git-version - with my fix you get finally rid of the DNS error... cheers, sascha.

[NuclearCookie]

That works like a charm. Thanks for helping out with this temporary solution!