When trying to install new versions volta hangs indefinitely and uses all available network bandwidth

[effervescentia]

Websites will not load and I have not waited long enough for the command to ever resolve or error (I've waited over 10 minutes)

I was able to solve this temporarily for node downloads by configuring the hooks.json file with a mirror

{
    "node": {
        "index": {
            "template": "https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/nodejs/release/index.json"
        },
        "distro": {
            "template": "https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/nodejs/release/v{{version}}/{{filename}}"
        }
    }
}

this is also happening when trying to install new versions of yarn
I first encountered this close to 2 or 3 weeks ago and it has not yet been resolved
it doesn't looks like a new version of volta has been released, but perhaps some certificates have expired?

if I open Activity Monitor and quit volta-shim my website loads immediately

OS: MacOS 14.4.1

[effervescentia]

as a follow up I wasn't able to find a relevant mirror for yarn but I followed this comment and used the releases from github as distro template

{
    "node": {
        "index": {
            "template": "https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/nodejs/release/index.json"
        },
        "distro": {
            "template": "https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/nodejs/release/v{{version}}/{{filename}}"
        }
    },
    "yarn": {
        "distro": {
            "template": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yarnpkg/berry/%40yarnpkg/cli/{{version}}/packages/yarnpkg-cli/bin/yarn.js"
        }
    }
}

[xavidop]

this happens to me as well!

[edison-vflow]

I am also experiencing this issue
@Volta could you please help resolve

[charlespierce]

This is extremely odd, thank you all for reporting! Is this still happening and consistent? And does it happen trying to access the paths directly via curl or the browser (e.g. https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json)?

[gillyb]

Happening to me too..
Trying to reach that url from the browser works for me.

[effervescentia]

this is definitely still happening, and I don't have any issues curling that URL
It's also happening with yarn releases, so nothing specific to the NodeJS download servers

[effervescentia]

@charlespierce anything else I can do to help find the source of the issue?