I’m fine in the US, but some others on HOJ (Humans of Julia) discord are unable to update packages. They noticed Status says it’s offline. I tried to ping and I mistyped pkg.julialang.org as pkg.juliakabg.org and got a ping, which is disturbing.
Yes, the pkg server in.pkg.julialang.org seems to be down. A workaround is to set
ENV["JULIA_PKG_SERVER"] = "jp.pkg.julialang.org"
or to any other working server.
This may be related to the recent github outage: GitHub Status - Incident History.
I’m fairly certain that the package server machines are independent of GitHub infrastructure. The content of the package servers may become delayed by GitHub outages though.