Startup Fails at Checking FCC facilities database for updates

[dyl421421]

I tried to start up locast2plex for the first time today and am successful up to Checking FCC facilities database for updates, and then I get a TracebackError, which ultimately leads to a urlopen error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because the connected host has failed to respond.

It seems to be related to performing the HEAD request on this file: 'https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/cdbs/facility.zip'. I tried opening that link myself and cannot seem to access it. Is it possible the link changed for this database, or is it down?

[bunjicat]

Same issue.

[zdale59]

Same

[RaaZeR2169]

ditto

[dyl421421]

I ended up trying again later and it worked without issue, looks like it came back online.

[zdale59]

It’s back up for me too!

[scotte]

This issue started up again about 3 hours ago again for me.

Recommend two things:

1. Make this a non-fatal issue if the request fails but the cache file is available. Keep retrying, don't fail.
2. Make the facility.zip URL a configuration item, rather than a hardcoded string, so that when the location changes it can easily be updated.

[michaelblong]

Just got this as well

[tazhatewater]

it looks like the ssl request is being rejected:

File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ssl.py", line 1099, in read
return self._sslobj.read(len, buffer)
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

I'll try and dig a bit more

[tazhatewater]

seems to be cleared up. obviously an issue on the .gov side.