A special X-mas present from M$FT : Microsoft has made an unexpected change to the way that .NET installers and archives are distributed. This change may affect you and may require changes in your development, CI, and/or production infrastructure. That change was necessary because one of the their Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers (edge.io) went into bankruptcy.

Affected domains:

• dotnetcli.azureedge.net
• dotnetbuilds.azureedge.net

Unaffected domains:

• dotnet.microsoft.com
• download.visualstudio.microsoft.com

New CDNs:

• Official builds: builds.dotnet.microsoft.com
• CI builds: ci.dot.net

What to do

There are several actions you can take to determine if you have any exposure to azureedge.net retirement.  Search your source code, install scripts, Dockerfiles and other files for instances of azureedge.net. There is a lot of use of the storage account: dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net. Please also search for it. The storage account is unaffected, however, it would be much better for everyone if you used M$FTs new CDN for it should deliver better peformance.

Update dotnetcli.azureedge.net to builds.dotnet.microsoft.com
Update dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net to builds.dotnet.microsoft.com