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864864As usual with data files,
865865Skyfield will only download the file the first time you need it,
866866then will keep using that same copy of the file that it finds on disk.
867+
868+ Note that the international agencies responsible for the file’s distribution
869+ sometimes have trouble keeping their servers up.
870+ For example, as I write this in May of 2022,
871+ the file cannot be fetched from ``ftp.iers.org ``
872+ because of an
873+ `Outage of iers.org data servers <https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/NewsMeetings/News/news_001.html >`_
874+ reported on their website.
875+ At
876+ `Skyfield issue #730 <https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/issues/730 >`_
877+ and
878+ `Skyfield issue #732 <https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/issues/732 >`_
879+ you can find links to alternative data sources
880+ which various Skyfield users have been able to access in the meantime.
881+
867882If your script will always have Internet access
868883and you worry about the file falling out of date
869884(and if you can trust the “modify time” file attribute on your filesystem),
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