Failed to connect to `ssl://pecl.php.net:443', unable to obtain channel.xml file for channel 'pecl.php.net': Operation timed out

Question

Starting from today 2022-08-11, the pecl channel-update pecl.php.net command cannot work.

It starts working and after a few seconds returns an error Cannot retrieve channel.xml for channel "pecl.php.net" (Connection to ssl://pecl.php.net:443 failed: Operation timed out).

Here is the full message:

$ pecl channel-update pecl.php.net

Update channel"pecl.php.net"
Channel "pecl.php.net" failed to respond via http://, failure message was: Invalid file http://pecl.php.net:80/channel.xml (redirect but no location)
Try using https://alternative channel"pecl.php.net"
Unable to retrieve channel.xml for channel 'pecl.php.net' (Connection to `ssl://pecl.php.net:443' failed: Operation timed out)

I tried it on my local machine, as well as in a GitLab pipeline that worked fine before.

Does anyone know what happened? Are there any changes on 2022-08-11?

Answer 1

pecl.php.net has been down intermittently for a few hours. Not sure if it was a DDoS attack, but it will certainly pose challenges in completing certain builds. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but it's really hard to be patient in the meantime.