Two ways to deal with this If you have a internal maven repository manger like Sonatype Nexus, one can setup a proxy pointing to http://repo.hortonworks.com/content/repositories/releases/ and internally add it to the nexus maven repository groups. If one doesn't have any type of maven repository manager they can directly use the public groups url "http://repo.hortonworks.com/content/groups/public/" in there maven settings.xml as a mirror ... View more