Connecting to ftp.gnu.org ... failed: Connection refused.

Hi,

For about a week downloads from ftp.gnu.org fail after about 10 attempts are
made:
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.14.tar.xz
--2025-08-17 13:55:06--  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.14.tar.xz
Resolving ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.20, 2001:470:142:3::b
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|209.51.188.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 885748 (865K) [application/x-xz]
Saving to: ‘gzip-1.14.tar.xz’

gzip-1.14.tar.xz           55%[==================>                 ] 476.02K
658KB/s               ^C
...
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.14.tar.xz
--2025-08-17 14:08:26--  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.14.tar.xz
Resolving ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.20, 2001:470:142:3::b
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|209.51.188.20|:443... failed:
Connection refused.
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|2001:470:142:3::b|:443... failed:
Network is unreachable.

You may be able to reproduce the problem by running:
for i in $(seq 1 15); do timeout 0.5 wget
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.14.tar.xz; done

See also
https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/27830#issuecomment-3179784766

Marcin

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