Intermittent CI network issue downloading assets.json from GitHub #33599

1. 
   maflcko commented at 6:16 am on October 10, 2025: member

   CI frequently fails lately intermittently due to a network issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/actions/runs/18389269290/job/52395485037?pr=33592#step:9:518

   As the infra was changed to run on someone else’s sever, I don’t know how to debug this or how to fix it.

2. maflcko added the label CI failed on Oct 10, 2025
3. 
   maflcko commented at 6:31 am on October 10, 2025: member

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/actions/runs/18383987889/job/52377590888?pr=33585#step:9:524, etc …
4. 
   fanquake commented at 6:49 am on October 10, 2025: member

   Possibly related to Github API incidents yesterday: https://www.githubstatus.com/history ?
5. 
   fanquake commented at 9:36 am on October 10, 2025: member

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/actions/runs/18386412219/job/52385904491?pr=28676
6. 
   willcl-ark commented at 4:49 pm on October 10, 2025: member

   I have reached out to Cirrus to see if they aware of any rate-limiting or anything else which could cause this.
7. 
   GrayHatGuy commented at 4:56 pm on October 10, 2025: none

   It’s probably due to all the non-financial op_return data polluting the chain
8. 
   maflcko commented at 6:00 pm on October 10, 2025: member

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/actions/runs/18410483211/job/52461242682?pr=33600#step:9:2172
9. 
   fjahr commented at 9:31 pm on October 11, 2025: contributor

   #32575 is now completely stuck on this, multiple jobs fail even after close/re-open. Seems like this has gotten worse if this was only hitting single jobs previously…
10. 
    maflcko commented at 10:07 am on October 12, 2025: member

    I guess the IPs are detected as and blocked as “LLM scrapers”. Possible workarounds could be:

    • Use a mirror/proxy to download the json file
    • Use a git clone (sparse), which may not be rate limited
11. maflcko closed this on Oct 14, 2025

    ---

12. 
    willcl-ark commented at 6:42 am on October 14, 2025: member

    I had a reply from Cirrus on this; apparently they have done some work over the weekend which should resolve this issue.

    We should keep an eye on failures in case it happens again, but other than that hopefully things now fixed.

Contributors
maflcko fanquake willcl-ark GrayHatGuy fjahr

Labels
CI failed