All API errors
Status 503

check_unavailable

The live check is unavailable

Why it happens

A live check or an appraisal started, and what it reads from did not answer.

What to do

Nothing was billed. Retry after Retry-After. Meanwhile GET /names/{name} answers the stored status.

API status

Example

503 · application/problem+json · Retry-After: 60
{
  "type": "https://unique.domains/api/problems/check_unavailable",
  "title": "The live check is unavailable",
  "status": 503,
  "detail": "The live check did not answer. Nothing was billed; retry in a minute.",
  "instance": "/v1/names/harbor.io/check",
  "code": "check_unavailable"
}

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