Tried to update pakfire today ... network hiccups?

Time is MST (which is UTC - 7)

Feb  3 13:36:16 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.23-x86_64 started!
Feb  3 13:36:16 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: server-list.db is 51873 seconds old. - DEBUG: force
Feb  3 13:36:16 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: 2.23-x86_64/lists/server-list.db
Feb  3 13:36:16 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: pakfire.ipfire.org (HTTP) - File: 2.23-x86_64/lists/server-list.db
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire unbound: [1333:0] info: validation failure pakfire.ipfire.org. A IN
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: 2.23-x86_64/lists/server-list.db has size of  bytes
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 500 - 500 Can't connect to pakfire.ipfire.org:80 (Bad hostname 'pakfire.ipfire.org')
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: Giving up: There was no chance to get the file 2.23-x86_64/lists/server-list.db from any available server. There was an error on the way. Please fix it.
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DB INFO: packages_list.db is 12285 seconds old. - DEBUG: force
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: lists/packages_list.db
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 23 servers found in list
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror1.ipfire.org (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.23-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire unbound: [1333:0] info: validation failure mirror1.ipfire.org. A IN
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.23-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db has size of  bytes
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 500 - 500 Can't connect to mirror1.ipfire.org:443 (Name or service not known)
Feb  3 13:36:17 ipfire pakfire: Giving up: There was no chance to get the file lists/packages_list.db from any available server. There was an error on the way. Please fix it.

Seems to be related to your DNS server. Change it and try it again: https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?t=20395

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There was a BGP leak issue (by Verizon) which affected Cloudflare (my DNS settings).
pakfire updated just fine an hour later.