Getting an error:404 when trying to install following the latest instructions

[tiredandtested]

I'm doing a new install on a Raspberry Pi 4 and I'm following the latest instructions for Debian based distributions. I get as far as and enter to following line:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

and it returns:

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

I've tried it several times yesterday and today. Am I doing something wrong? Can I get the correct key somewhere else?
Many thanks in advance

[riosje]

this doesn't make sense.
I just tried to download it and it works.
try to open this URL in your browser, literally the file is there
https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key

Could you add more verbosity to the curl command, try to execute this, and post the output here
curl -vvv -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key

[tiredandtested]

Thanks for your help. It didn't make sense to me either and I tried opening the url directly and got the same 404. Here's the output of the command with more verbosity:

*   Trying 143.204.15.127:443...
* Connected to deb.nodesource.com (143.204.15.127) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.nodesource.com
*  start date: Feb 23 00:00:00 2023 GMT
*  expire date: Oct 11 23:59:59 2023 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "deb.nodesource.com" matched cert's "*.nodesource.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Amazon; CN=Amazon RSA 2048 M01
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x558b209ce0)
> GET /gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key HTTP/2
> Host: deb.nodesource.com
> user-agent: curl/7.74.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
* The requested URL returned error: 404
* stopped the pause stream!
* Connection #0 to host deb.nodesource.com left intact
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

[riosje]

OK I thing this is related to DNS cache or something like that.
Could you execute dig deb.nodesource.com or in case you don't have dig installed you should have nslookup try to execute nslookup deb.nodesource.com and post the output here

[tiredandtested]

~ $ dig deb.nodesource.com

; <<>> DiG 9.16.44-Debian <<>> deb.nodesource.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9703
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;deb.nodesource.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
deb.nodesource.com. 0 IN A 143.204.15.127

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 100.100.100.100#53(100.100.100.100)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 27 15:12:26 BST 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63

[riosje]

try to change your nameservers(DNS)
you should be getting an output similar to this one

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> deb.nodesource.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47275
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;deb.nodesource.com.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
deb.nodesource.com.	300	IN	CNAME	deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 300 IN A	172.67.10.205
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 300 IN A	104.22.4.26
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 300 IN A	104.22.5.26

[tiredandtested]

Many thanks for your help. It is now installed without any further issues. In case anyone else comes across this, I tried changing the dns in my Raspberry Pi 4 that I was trying to install Nodejs on and the Raspberry Pi 3 I run Pi Hole on and it still didn't work. Then I changed the dns settings in Tailscale that I was also running on the Raspberrry Pi 3 and that enabled me to download the key.

Of all the installs I've done on this Raspberry Pi4 https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key was the only url I had issues with. Not sure why this site behaves differently compared to others, maybe someone can explain but the above worked. Once again thank you.

[jbreda007]

I am having a similar problem which I cant resolve. On a Pi 3 I have tried to update nodered and nodejs but it fails as it cant resolve https://deb.nodesource.com. If I ping deb.nodesource.com I get no response and it shows an inc $ ping deb.nodesource.com

PING deb.nodesource.com (143.204.15.127) 56(84) bytes of data.

Yet if I use dig I get this:
dig deb.nodesource.com

; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u11-Raspbian <<>> deb.nodesource.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20073
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;deb.nodesource.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
deb.nodesource.com. 140552 IN CNAME deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 254 IN A 104.22.5.26
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 254 IN A 172.67.10.205
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 254 IN A 104.22.4.26

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 02 08:40:31 BST 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 146

I've changed DNS servers with no help.

host returns@
host deb.nodesource.com
deb.nodesource.com is an alias for deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 172.67.10.205
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 104.22.5.26
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 104.22.4.26
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:10::ac43:acd
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:10::6816:41a
deb.nodesource.com.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:10::6816:51a

Driving me mad.